The second was to cancel two additional War Supplies Limited contracts for minesweepers and ammunition intended for Lend - Lease to the UK , amounting in value to about $ 20 million . The third was to pay a small amount for subsidies to ...
Author: Robert Broughton Bryce
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773529381
Category: Canada
Page: 436
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How Canada helped Britain finance the war effort.Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction.
Author: Robert Bryce
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773573055
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 440
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Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction. Canada's financial aid made it possible for Britain to wage an effective war and then deal with the destruction it wrought. Bryce details how Canada's Department of Finance can also be credited with overcoming some of Britain's most pressing balance-of-payments problems after the war.The relationship of the aid expenditures of the two countries to their total munitions production and to the total military cost of World War II was as follows ( in millions of dollars of the respective countries ) : Total war aid or ...
Author: Stanley W. Dziuban
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:31951001704243A
Category: Canada
Page: 830
View: 488
The relationship of the total aid expenditures of the two countries to the total military cost of World War II is also interesting . Canada's total war aid , including mutual aid and the billiondollar grant to the United Kingdom ...
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ISBN: PURD:32754063664241
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Page: 460
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R.B. Bryce, Canada and the Cost ofWorld WarII: The International Operations ofCanada's ... Greg Donaghy (Ottawa: Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, 1997), 135-66, and Hector Mackenzie, “The White Paper on ...
Author: Isabel Campbell
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774825658
Category: History
Page: 268
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In 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented personnel policies that permanently changed the distribution of the defence budget and the character of the Canadian Army. This original account of the evolution of the Canadian Army from a small training cadre to a truly national force offers a new perspective on military policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era.The scheme did continue to transfer significant amounts of income from core to peripheral regions of Canada, but in the context of rapid rural depopulation after World War II, the importance of even this regional exchange was soon ...
Author: Peter Neary
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773516786
Category: History
Page: 336
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Part history and part social commentary, this book examines the repatriation of Canada's WWII veterans with a collection of essays by 11 historians. Topics include the administration of the return of Canadian soldiers from Europe after VE--Day, the philosophy and benefits of the Veterans Charter, veterans' rights, educational opportunities for returning vets, and the rehabilitation of veterans with disabilities. Includes bandw photographs. Appends the complete text of Back to Civil Life, a 1946 repatriation manual. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, ORVictory Bonds Purchases during world war II, qu. (Mr. Fair) 318 Value now and at time of purchase, 345-46 Wages. See Labour And cost of living. See Cost of Living Government. See that title War Avoidance of, 449 Canada cannot afford to ...
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:B2887818
Category: Canada
Page: 864
View: 476
It has been stated that in 1948 Canadian cost of the most important items of production was more than 2 times similar ... indicate , however , that for sev- eral years before the outbreak of World War II European costs ranged from 20 to ...
Author: United States Tariff Commission
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015018443526
Category: Industries
Page: 56
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Data from the same source show that during the same period 12 Canadian companies averaged $ 43.53 a ton while operating at 55.4 percent of ... For no country is there any published material concerning costs during World War II .
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ISBN: IND:30000090013065
Category: Newsprint industry
Page: 62
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PRICE MOVEMENTS > Based upon Canada's official indexes , price increases during World War II have been moderate both at wholesale and retail in comparison with World War I experience . During the entire period from August 1939 to ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN: UVA:X001725228
Category: Labor
Page: 1400
View: 209
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