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title: Ça c'est MON bateau! On peut compter dessus! [That's MY ship! You can count on it!]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-ca-cest-mon-bateau-french-winter-1939/
description: A cartoon worker in a cinema audience waves his cap and points at a screen showing a warship under attack by a cross-marked aircraft.
section: Collection
---

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[![Ça c'est MON bateau! On peut compter dessus! \[That's MY ship! You can count on it!\], 1939 Canada poster: A cartoon worker](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-ca-cest-mon-bateau-french-winter-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-ca-cest-mon-bateau-french-winter-1939.jpg)

# Ça c'est MON bateau! On peut compter dessus! [That's MY ship! You can count on it!]

A cartoon worker in a cinema audience waves his cap and points at a screen showing a warship under attack by a cross-marked aircraft, under the French slogan 'Ça c'est MON bateau!'. The tell is the worker claiming the ship as his own (identity fusion) in an ordinary-man cartoon style (plain folks); it is the French-language counterpart of an English poster in the series.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ÇA C'EST MON BATEAU!
ON PEUT COMPTER DESSUS!

PUBLIÉ POUR LE SERVICE DE LA CONSTRUCTION NAVALE, MINISTÈRE DES MUNITIONS ET APPROVISIONNEMENTS, PAR LE SERVICE DE L'INFORMATION, OTTAWA

Imprimé au C[illegible]

W.A. WINTER
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THAT'S MY SHIP!
YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!

PUBLISHED FOR THE SHIPBUILDING BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS AND SUPPLY, BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE, OTTAWA

Printed in C[illegible]

W.A. WINTER
```

[← Brother - It's No Push-Over!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-brother-its-no-push-over-1939/) [Canada's New Army Needs Men Like You →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-canadas-new-army-needs-men-like-you-1939/)

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