--- title: A Tribute from Home - Buy Victory Bonds url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-tribute-from-home-buy-victory-bonds-canada-1944/ description: A collage of provincial newspaper clippings on Canadian troops in Italy over-subscribing the Sixth Victory Loan surrounds a National War Finance Committee section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. A Tribute from Home - Buy Victory Bonds [![A Tribute from Home - Buy Victory Bonds, 1944 Canada poster: A collage of provincial newspaper clippings on Canadian troops](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-tribute-from-home-buy-victory-bonds-canada-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-tribute-from-home-buy-victory-bonds-canada-1944.jpg) # A Tribute from Home - Buy Victory Bonds A collage of provincial newspaper clippings on Canadian troops in Italy over-subscribing the Sixth Victory Loan surrounds a National War Finance Committee letter dated August 16th, 1944, beneath a shield badge and 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell for bandwagon is the accumulation of headlines reporting many subscribers; the tell for testimonial is the signed committee chairman's tribute to the army overseas. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` A tribute from home [headlines, by province:] BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver Sun: Canucks in Italy Top Loan Quota by 60 Pct. ALBERTA, Edmonton Journal: Soldiers In Italy Over-Subscribe Loan SASKATCHEWAN, Regina Leader Post: Soldiers Buy Victory Bonds As Straight Business MANITOBA, Winnipeg Tribune: Why Troops Overseas Buy $8 Million In Bonds ONTARIO, Windsor Daily Star: Canadians In Italy Surge Past Goal In Victory Loan QUEBEC, Montreal Daily Star: 'It Might Get Me Home Sooner' NEW BRUNSWICK, Moncton Transcript: Seven Service Units Subscribe More Than $400,000 In The Loan NOVA SCOTIA, Halifax Herald: Dieppe Veteran Issues Challenge PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Charlottetown Guardian: ...Tells How Canadians in Italy are Buying Bonds in Sixth Loan [other clippings:] Troops In Italy Buy $4,523,000 Of Loan; Private Buys $10,000 Worth Of War Bonds; Men In Front Lines Are Buying Bonds; Armed Services Show... In Subscriptions; Men Overseas Buy Bonds; Troops Buy War Bonds In Italy [letter:] NATIONAL WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE 240 WELLINGTON STREET . OTTAWA August 16th, 1944. TO: THE CANADIAN ARMY OVERSEAS In the Sixth Victory Loan, the men and women of Canada's Armed Forces set a magnificent example for the rest of us, and Canada pays tribute. Canadians on the Home Front on the opening of the Seventh Victory Loan, and shall look forward with great interest, to a repetition of this splendid record. The building up of a reserve fund in Victory Bonds will be invaluable on your return to civilian life. Yours sincerely, [signature] G. F. Towers Chairman. BUY VICTORY BONDS ``` [← '90% of the world's rubber is in Japanese hands: Save rubber' (Australian Army poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/90-percent-of-rubber-in-japanese-hands-australia-1944/) [Români, siliți guvernul vostru (RAF and US Army Air Forces leaflet to Romanians, 1944) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allied-leaflet-romani-siliti-guvernul-vostru-1944/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer) - [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon) - [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon) - ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Partisan caricature of named politicians that uses the epithet 'Black Dan' for Daniel Webster and regional stereotypes in the speech balloons. - ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) (United States · Apr 1836 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - ['The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Bandwagon) - ['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)