--- title: Canada's egg opportunity (Canada Food Board) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-egg-opportunity-1918/ description: 'A man in a ''CANADA'' shirt scratches his head beside a giant hen, over drawn eggs scaled to dozen counts: Britain''s wartime shortage and normal purchases…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Canada's egg opportunity (Canada Food Board)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-egg-opportunity-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-egg-opportunity-1918.jpg) # Canada's egg opportunity (Canada Food Board) A man in a 'CANADA' shirt scratches his head beside a giant hen, over drawn eggs scaled to dozen counts: Britain's wartime shortage and normal purchases against what Canada sold 2 and 16 years ago. The tell is the selection of figures: only the supply gap and Canada's past small sales are shown, so the verdict 'Canada must do better' follows. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Canada's EGG Opportunity Britain's Shortage due to War 124,786,750 DOZ. Britain Normally buys 190,850,520 DOZ. 2 Years ago Canada Sold 2,128,500 DOZ. 16 Years ago Canada Sold 10,860,536 DOZ. "Very little eggs for such a big bird" CANADA must do better. [roundel] CANADA FOOD BOARD ``` [← Die erste Million (The First Million), British balloon leaflet A.P. 74](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/british-balloon-leaflet-die-erste-million-1918/) [Elles servent la France. Tout le monde peut servir. Souscrivons à l'Emprunt de la Victoire (Canada) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elles-servent-la-france-emprunt-de-la-victoire-1918/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (Kingdom of England · 1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [The Virginia Argus, "Letter to Mazzei" and rebuttal, 16 September 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/virginia-argus-letter-to-mazzei-1800/) (United States · Sep 16, 1800 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Examiner, No. 608, 22 August 1819, 'Disturbances at Manchester' (Peterloo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/examiner-disturbances-at-manchester-1819/) (United Kingdom · Aug 22, 1819 · Card stacking) - [Punch, 'Laurels at Ningpo' column on the First Opium War, 1842](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/punch-laurels-at-ningpo-1842/) (United Kingdom · 1842 · Card stacking). Content note: Period satirical prose describing the killing of Chinese soldiers at Ningpo in graphic terms, using period terms such as 'pig-tail' for Chinese people. - [La paz según el Perú – La paz según los chilenos (Peace According to Peru, Peace According to the Chileans)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-paz-segun-el-peru-el-banquillo-1880/) (Peru · Jun 12, 1880 · Card stacking) - [New York Journal and Advertiser, front page, 17 February 1898 ($50,000 reward, Maine 'work of an enemy')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ny-journal-maine-destroyed-enemy-1898/) (United States · Feb 17, 1898 · Card stacking)