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1943 in Canada

1943 in Canada

Canada-related events during the year of 1943

Events from the year 1943 in Canada.

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Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders[3]

Film: Canadian and U.S. troops train for Italian invasion[4]

Film: Canadian soldiers and nurses embark for Italian invasion[5]

Cartoon: Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"[6]

Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")[7]

Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire[8]

Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"[9]

Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms[10]

Film: Canadian troops fighting in Ortona[11]

Germans leave Ortona and their dead – "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"[12]

Guide for battlefield first aid emphasizes combat practicality, like common sense, self-reliance, improvisation, effective care and carrying on fight[13]

Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe[14]

Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska[15]

"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"[16]

At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis[17]

National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta[18]

"We are few, very few" – Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter[19]

Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand[20]

U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development[21]

Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"[22]

Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large[23]

Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization[24]

Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa[25]

Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners[26]

"So reactionary to Liberal principles" – PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike[27]

Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"[28]

Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining[29]

Because of their difficulty finding housing and jobs, British Columbia MLA raises funds for halfway house for women discharged from mental institutions[30]

As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens[31]

"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" – touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality[32]

"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" – Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony[33]

Photo: RCAF member meets famed actor who plays "Rochester" on Jack Benny's radio comedy show[34]

References

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    "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. [2]
    Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
  3. [3]
    Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 127, November 16, 1944), pgs. 1-4. Accessed 15 July 2020
  4. [4]
    British Pathé, "How They Prepared" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
  5. [5]
    British Pathé, "Canadians Sail To Mediterranean" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020
  6. [6]
    John Collins, "The Boys From Syracuse" The (Montreal) Gazette (1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
  7. [7]
    Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 135, May 4, 1945), pgs. 2-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
  8. [8]
    Historical Section (G.S.), Department of National Defence, "Canadian Operations in Italy, October–November, 1943" (Report No. 161, October 16, 1946), pgs. 22-3. Accessed 15 July 2020
  9. [9]
    Armed Forces Operations Staff, "Material for the Lecture by the Chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff[...]; Position in Italy" (translation; November 2, 1943), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Volume VII (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 948-9 (PDF pgs. 953-4). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.doc (click Volume 7)
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    Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Italy, September–December, 1943: Preliminary Report" (Report No. 129, November 25, 1944), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 15 July 2020
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    British Pathé, "Canadians Fight Germans Through Streets of Italy" (1944). Accessed 27 July 2020
  12. [12]
    Douglas Amaron, "Only German Dead Left In Shambles of Ortona" The Globe and Mail (December 31, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
  13. [13]
    Notes for Instructors in Battle First Aid (1943). (See also First Aid in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1942) Accessed 17 May 2022
  14. [14]
    Montague Black (artist), "R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. fighter squadrons...." Star Weekly (March 6, 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 15 July 2020
  15. [15]
    United States Navy, "Landing to find the little men not there" (August 15, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
  16. [16]
    "Four Years of World War" (translation), Israelitisches Wochenblatt (August 27, 1943), in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1234-5 (PDF pgs. 1259-60). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.doc (click Supplement A)
  17. [17]
    William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Four Years of War" (September 10, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020
  18. [18]
    Dominion of Canada; National Registration Regulations, 1940; Registration Certificate (dated June 29, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020
  19. [19]
    Marie I. Stewart, "Quebec Pacifists," The Canadian C.O., Vol. 1, No. 6 (August 1943), pg. 6. Accessed 17 July 2020 https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/milton-good-library/newsletters-alternative-service (scroll down to The Canadian C.O.; August, 1943)
  20. [20]
    "Minutes of Evidence" (March 31, 1943), Proceedings of the [Senate] Special Committee on Economic Re-Establishment and Social Security, pgs. 10-11. Accessed 6 October 2020
  21. [21]
    "Article of Agreement Governing Collaboration Between the Authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the Matter of Tube Alloys" (August 19, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
  22. [22]
    United States Department of State, "The Chargé in Canada (Clark) to the Secretary of State" Foreign Relations of the United States; Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 1104-5. Accessed 16 July 2020
  23. [23]
    The University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota, "The Midcontinent and the Peace; The Interests of Western Canada and Central Northwest United States in the Peace Settlements" (1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
  24. [24]
    United States Department of State, "Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)" Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 881-3. Accessed 16 July 2020
  25. [25]
    Letter of Lester Pearson (March 24, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
  26. [26]
    "Fishing Fleet Becomes Alive" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, March 17, 1943), pg. 4. Accessed 15 February 2020 (See photo "Impounded Japanese Canadian vessels requisitioned for military use readied for shipment")
  27. [27]
    Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1943 (January 14), pgs. 32-4. Accessed 16 July 2020
  28. [28]
    John Collins, "How It's Spelled in Wartime" The (Montreal) Gazette (August 4, 1943). Accessed 17 February 2020
  29. [29]
    "A Labor Policy for Victory; Submission presented by Tim Buck on behalf of The Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee to The National War Labor Board Inquiry Into Labor Relations; May 28th, 1943." Accessed 16 July 2020
  30. [30]
    "'Family Care' Sought For Mental Patients" Vancouver Sun (August 11, 1943), pg. 9. Accessed 14 August 2022
  31. [31]
    Letter to Margaret Konantz (January 22, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
  32. [32]
    Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, "A Tour with a Travelling Officer" The Bulletin, No. 41 (March 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 7 August 2020
  33. [33]
    Letter of Dmitri Shostakovich (June 23, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020
  34. [34]
    "Windsor Airman Meets 'Rochester'" Windsor Star (February 17, 1943). Accessed 20 March 2021
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