Home Front overview for CHC2D Canadian History in the 20th century Glebe CI Ottawa Ontario

3. What is this
cartoon saying
about Mackenzie
King?
Do you agree with
the cartoonist?
Why or why not?

4. Were against war on spiritual and moral basis and 10,700
Canadians fell into this category during WWII
• Included Mennonites, Dukhobors & Quakers who had come to
Canada to escape conflict
• Supported non-violent ways to bring change and end conflict
• Contribute to the war effort by :
• Buying Victory bonds
• Farming or forestry
• Serving in medical and dental corps

6. Compare these posters

8. Camp X was a paramilitary and commando training center located
between Whitby and Oshawa, Ontario
where Allied spies trained
• Spies helped organize the resistance
movements in Europe
• Helped sabotage Nazi supply lines and
railways
• Fed Germans false information
in preparation for D-Day

11. The ship was carrying nearly 1000 Jewish Refugees
seeking asylum from persecution in Nazi Germany
• Turned away from Cuba
• Turned away from the US
A group of academics and clergy tried to persuade
the Canadian government to accept them but failed
The Captain managed to gain
acceptance for some of the
refugees in the United Kingdom,
France, Belgium, and the
Netherlands
The refugees were eventually
captured. Less than half of the
former S.S. St. Louis passengers
survived the war