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title: '''Buy Your Victory Bonds'' Canadian Victory Loan poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buy-your-victory-bonds-canada-1917/
description: A head-and-shoulders drawing of a helmeted soldier in a collar badge marked CANADA, glaring out with a pointing finger aimed at the viewer, over the…
section: Collection
---

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[!['Buy Your Victory Bonds' Canadian Victory Loan poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/buy-your-victory-bonds-canada-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/buy-your-victory-bonds-canada-1917.jpg)

# 'Buy Your Victory Bonds' Canadian Victory Loan poster

A head-and-shoulders drawing of a helmeted soldier in a collar badge marked CANADA, glaring out with a pointing finger aimed at the viewer, over the words 'Buy Your Victory Bonds'. The tell is the substitution of a person for an argument: the poster gives no rate, term or reason, and lets the soldier's uniform, stare and outstretched hand carry the demand.

- **Date:** 1917
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Victory Bond Committee, Ottawa (Dominion of Canada Victory Loan campaign)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [Canada](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=canada)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Borden Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=borden-government)
- **Leader:** [Robert Laird Borden](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=robert-laird-borden)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise)
- **Themes:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buy_Your_Victory_Bonds._Color_poster._Issued_by_Victory_Bond_Committee,_Ottawa,_Canada.,_ca._1917_-_NARA_-_516338.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Canadian poster c. 1917, before 1931; NARA item 516338) Victory Bond Committee, Ottawa, c. 1917; U.S. National Archives item 516338, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Buy Your
Victory Bonds

[on the collar badge, a maple leaf under a crown:] CANADA
[bottom left, small:] D-1
```

The collar badge lettering is part of the drawing. 'D-1' is a small printer's or archive mark at the lower left.

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