Chairman and President - Canadian Pacific Railway Company

A framed studio portrait of a bespectacled man sits above white text in his voice and a facsimile signature, signed as chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, under the company shield. The tell for testimonial is the signed endorsement from the company head; for glittering-generalities, the 'proud record' and 'magnificent war effort', virtue words offered in place of any figure on what the bonds fund.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

TestimonialGlittering generalities

Date

1943

Period

Second World War

Made by

Canadian Pacific Railway Company (employee Victory Loan appeal over the signature of its chairman and president)

Region

North America

Country

Canada

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

Corporation

Regime

Mackenzie King Government

Leader

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Audience

Domestic public

Purpose

Fundraise

Themes

Economy and finance, 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 (Canadian wartime poster, no rights statement)
Canadian Pacific Railway Company, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-590.

I am confident that Canadian Pacific men and women will maintain their proud record by generously responding to the call to buy Canada's Fifth Victory Loan Bonds, and thus again support the magnificent war effort of more than 17,000 Company people and all other Canadians on Active Service at Home and Abroad.

[signature]
CHAIRMAN and PRESIDENT
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY