"Me and My War Savings Are Just Like This!" They're Good Things to Have and to Hold
A winking woman with crossed fingers sits above Dominion of Canada War Savings Certificates and bonds, with the text 'They're good things to have and to hold'. The tell is the wedding-vow phrasing applied to certificates, which offers a virtue-word promise ('good things') in place of terms such as rate or maturity.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- No issuer imprint visible; artist Jack Keay; Canadian War Savings campaign material
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- 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
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- 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 government poster, no rights statement)
Artist Jack Keay; issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-646.
Text on the object
"ME AND MY WAR SAVINGS ARE JUST LIKE THIS!" THEY'RE GOOD THINGS TO HAVE AND TO HOLD [signature:] JACK KEAY [certificates pictured:] DOMINION OF CANADA ... WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATE / CERTIFICAT D'EPARGNE DE GUERRE
