1941 in Canada

Outline guide to Canadian Army, including organization, training, arms and services, medical services, auxiliary services and "Need for Men"[24] PM King: "The war has grown in intensity and extent.

Threats have become realities[...]and fears have been turned into terrors.

"[25] "The American Republics [are] in serious danger" - President Roosevelt calls for defence of Western Hemisphere[26] "War is approaching" - Roosevelt warns American republics of Nazi intentions of subversion and enslavement in hemisphere[27] PM King agrees it's important to convince Latin America that Nazis are as menacing to South America as to North[28] Roosevelt and Churchill agree to Atlantic Charter's principles of postwar peace at shipboard conference in Newfoundland[29] Franklin Roosevelt's account of covert voyage to his meeting with Winston Churchill in Newfoundland[30] Advocating nuclear weapons, MAUD Committee compares power of 25 lbs.

of uranium material to millions of pounds that exploded in 1917 Halifax[31] By attacking U.S. and British Empire forces, Japanese "make their own ruin inevitable"[32] "A tremendous financial burden" - PM King details Canada's direct and indirect contributions (money, materiel and people) to war effort[33] Canada enhances Northwest Staging Route for transit of U.S. warplanes and supplies through Yukon to besieged U.S.S.R.[34] Thank-you letter to Vuntut Gwitchin for money contributed to orphans and homeless children in Britain[35] Communist Party of Canada challenges RCMP commissioner's remarks regarding "reds"[36] Interned Soviet sympathizers demand release from Canadian "concentration camp" after Germany attacks U.S.S.R.[37] High school girls join Ontario Farm Service Force to pick fruit on Niagara Peninsula as their war service[38] High school girls in YWCA's Hi-Y clubs raise funds selling War Savings stamps at movie theatres[39] "Give him my love" - with "very real warmth," Mackenzie King asks Washington official to pass message to Franklin Roosevelt[40] "What a shock" - House of Commons reacts to news of Frederick Banting's death in airplane crash[41] Prime Minister King offers to find government job for defeated MP Agnes Macphail[42] Film reveals Winston Churchill's comic timing in his Some Chicken - Some Neck!

speech to Parliament[43] Humorous letter about searching for Kawartha Lakes, Ontario soldiers for writer to host in England[44] Teenager experiences gay scene in movie theatres of downtown Toronto[45] Film: air route from Edmonton to Alaska[46] Memories of 60 years' work at Great Lakes grain elevator about to be torn down[47] "A friend completely trusted" - obituary for Prime Minister King's dog Pat[48]

David Kilgour, 2008
Denys Arcand at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
William Howard Hearst