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title: This Is Our Strength - Our Forests
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-our-forests-this-is-our-strength-eneleigh-1942/
description: A painted axe stands in a stump among towering dark trunks under the headline 'This Is Our Strength'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![This Is Our Strength - Our Forests, 1942 Canada poster: A painted axe stands in a stump among towering dark trunks under](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-our-forests-this-is-our-strength-eneleigh-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-our-forests-this-is-our-strength-eneleigh-1942.jpg)

# This Is Our Strength - Our Forests

A painted axe stands in a stump among towering dark trunks under the headline 'This Is Our Strength'. The text reports one billion board feet of added output and the Mosquito bomber as examples, giving only the favourable figures (card-stacking) under a virtue slogan (glittering-generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THIS IS OUR STRENGTH

OUR FORESTS one third of whose products are sent abroad, are making a growing contribution to the United Nations' drive to victory. In the first year of war alone, Canada's vast timber industry increased production by more than one billion board feet, despite the large number of men it sent into the services and war plants.

The Mosquito Bomber and plywood tubing are dramatic examples of new uses of wood which will be extended for the building of a more stable post-war world.

ISSUED BY WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD.  PRODUCED BY NATIONAL FILM BOARD, OTTAWA.  Printed in Canada.  WIB-10E

[signature:] Eneleigh
```

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