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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

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

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Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Canada, Victory Bonds campaign (no issuing body or printer legible on the sheet)
Region
North America
Country
Canada
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Mackenzie King Government
Leader
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Home front, Economy and finance
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; Canadian wartime work, hosted by owner decision
Canada, Victory Bonds campaign, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-570.

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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