'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
- Made by
- Victory Bond Committee, Ottawa (Dominion of Canada Victory Loan campaign)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Borden Government
- Leader
- Robert Laird Borden
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons), 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
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.
