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Canada at War, Part 4: Days of Infamy

December 1941 - June 1942. The war is now global and pressures on Canada mount. Without warning Japan strikes at Pearl Harbor. Canadians adjust to food rationing, salvage drives. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is inaugurated in Canada. In Ottawa, Winston Churchill makes his 'some chicken, some neck' speech.
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  • Canada at War
    Canada at War
    1962 13 films
    From the depressed thirties to the war-torn forties -- a time of testing and trial, of strength discovered and victory won. Here is Canada's story of World War II, as experienced by Canadians at home and on the battlefronts of the world. In thirteen half-hour films you re-live a vital era that changed the nation and the world.

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December 1941 - June 1942. The war is now global and pressures on Canada mount. Without warning Japan strikes at Pearl Harbor. Canadians adjust to food rationing, salvage drives. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is inaugurated in Canada. In Ottawa, Winston Churchill makes his 'some chicken, some neck' speech.

History - Canada - 1920-1945 Foreign Countries War, Conflict and Peace All subjects
  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Peter Jones
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • writer
    Donald Brittain
  • editing
    John Kemeny
    Tony Lower
    David Green
  • sound editing
    Kenneth Heeley-Ray
    Michael McKennirey
    Victor Merrill
    Sidney Pearson
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • narrator
    Budd Knapp
  • music
    Robert Fleming
    Eldon Rathburn
    Maurice Blackburn
    Ken Campbell

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Ages 14 to 17
School subjects
Civics/Citizenship - Human Rights History - World War II
Students will examine the controversial issue of Canada’s wartime internment camps. This study can be incorporated into a larger project on civil rights. Students will write a journal from the point of view of an inmate: their daily routines, the conditions in the camp and their hopes and fears for the future. Students will also study the 1942 plebiscite on conscription, and the resulting crisis, which greatly divided English and French Canada.

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