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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- National War Finance Committee, Ottawa (letterhead on the poster; chairman G. F. Towers)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
National War Finance Committee, Ottawa. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-565.
Text on the object
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
