Historical documents
Canadian issues in postwar Germany include pacification and recovery, export trade, reparations, and punishment of war crimes[3]
British Prime Minister asks PM King not to withdraw occupation forces from Germany, arguing U.K. should not be expected to do all[4]
"Purely and simply the extermination of allied airmen" - evidence that captured flyers accused of "terroristic attacks" were murdered[5]
Testimony against SS physician conducting biological experiments at Dachau concentration camp[6]
Nazis fought "an intellectual battle, the goal of which was the destruction of Christianity and the church"[7]
"A giant quantity of valuables" - testimony that SS profited from clothing, jewellery and other belongings of murdered Jews[8]
PM King announces royal commission to report on leaks of secrets, including to "a foreign mission in Ottawa"[9]
Soviets say PM's announcement tied to "unbridled anti-soviet campaign[...]in the Canadian press and on[...]radio"[10]
"In knowledge, with a sense of proportion" - editorial says there should be no hysteria in hunt for communists[11]
In charge to jury at first espionage trial, judge says conspiracy "touches the very nerve centre of our national existence"[12]
Royal Commission on Espionage final report alleges "spy rings" include federal government employees and military officers[13]
Parsing reaction to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, Lester Pearson finds U.S. hardening toward U.S.S.R. "depressing if not dangerous"[14]
Real possibility that food situation in Europe, India, China and elsewhere will worsen from "low caloric intake" to starvation[15]
To help end world crisis, Canadians should conserve food and expect less meat, dairy, beer and spirits[16]
Canadian Wheat Board supports giving U.K. priority for wheat over UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration[17]
"Selective attraction[, not] repulsion" - Senate committee wants end to Immigration Act centred on exclusion ("Asiatic" excepted)[18]
Once veterans' employment has been seen to, Canadians should expect refugee Poles, Ukrainians, Mennonites and ethnic Germans[19]
English woman and baby make voyage with 1,000 other war brides to Halifax and take train to her husband in Calgary[20]
Canadian citizenship, separate from British subject status, created by act specifying how it can be earned and lost, plus status of aliens[21]
Head of U.S. atomic research criticizes U.S.A.-U.K.-Canada agreement to jointly develop atomic energy for peace[22]
U.S.A. asks that Loran network, useful for navigation, guided missiles and early warning, continue in North (request accepted)[23]
Responses from several reserves (Nanaimo to Shubenacadie) to Parliament's query about treaty rights, bands, schools, franchise etc.[24]
Indian residential school principal asks for small tractor to give practical experience to grade 7-9 boys taking mechanics course[25]
Joey Smallwood advocates Newfoundland entering Confederation by laying out federal government's "New Deal" offer to provinces[26]
Film: sleighs loaded and pulled by tractor across Great Slave Lake to Yellowknife[27]
Painting: Portrait of Black member of Canadian Women’s Army Corps[28]
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