Lick Them Over There! Come On Canada!
A shouting soldier with a 'CANADA' shoulder flash and a bayoneted rifle stands on a globe above a Canadian village and points toward a dark cloud holding swastikas, with a Union Jack and a convoy on the horizon. 'Come on Canada!' addresses the nation as one body (identity-fusion), and the church, village and flag are set against the swastika cloud as what is at stake (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Director of Public Information, Ottawa, under authority of the Minister of National War Services (J. T. Thorson)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, 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
- Public domain (Canadian Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired; no URAA restoration)
Director of Public Information under the Minister of National War Services, Ottawa. U.S. National Archives (RG 44).
Text on the object
LICK THEM over-there! COME ON CANADA ! [on shoulder flash:] CANADA ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, UNDER AUTHORITY OF HON. J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES, OTTAWA Printed in Canada [code illegible]
