This is Canada: One of the United Nations
A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country' combines captioned photographs, a text block 'this is CANADA' on war production and international standing, pictogram charts, ranked lists of resources and a Canada-U.S.A. comparison chart under the banner 'ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS'. The tell for card-stacking is the selection of favourable rankings and per-capita comparisons (exports, imports, railroad mileage) without denominators for the other nations; the pictogram charts lend a statistical look (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Canadian Wartime Information Board, Ottawa; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, 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
- Canadian Crown copyright, published 1943-1945, 50 years expired before 1996; hosted by owner decision
Canadian Wartime Information Board; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-899d.
Text on the object
this is CANADA the people / their work / the country POPULATION: Canada's population of 11,814,000 is only about one-twelfth of that of the United States... ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS [Body text, captions and chart labels in smaller type; headings and imprint legible:] f. c. veit and s. m. adler ISSUED BY CANADIAN WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, OTTAWA, CANADA
