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title: Hang on to Your Victory Bonds and Certificates (Be Crazy Like a Fox)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-hang-on-to-your-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A red fox with a wink and a grin clutches Dominion of Canada bonds and war savings certificates against a yellow ground.
section: Collection
---

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[![Hang on to Your Victory Bonds and Certificates, 1939 Canada poster: A red fox with a wink and a grin clutches Dominion](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-hang-on-to-your-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-hang-on-to-your-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)

# Hang on to Your Victory Bonds and Certificates (Be Crazy Like a Fox)

A red fox with a wink and a grin clutches Dominion of Canada bonds and war savings certificates against a yellow ground, under 'Be crazy like a.... Hang on to your Victory Bonds and Certificates' and 'They are good things to have ... and to hold'. The tell is the borrowed reputation of the fox for shrewdness, attached to the act of keeping a bond rather than cashing it; the sheet gives no figures.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BE CRAZY
LIKE A....

HANG ON
TO YOUR
VICTORY BONDS
AND
CERTIFICATES

THEY ARE GOOD THINGS TO HAVE
...AND TO HOLD

[on the bonds:] DOMINION OF CANADA / DOMINION DU CANADA; CERTIFICAT D'EPARGNE DE GUERRE; THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA (partly hidden)
```

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