Dominion Arsenal: Canada’s WWII Ammunition Plant Hub
The Dominion Arsenal in Quebec Province is described as the country’s premier ammunition plant complex. The site employs hundreds, with facilities across multiple buildings. cartridge cases are produced through forty operations, propellants and shells are shaped, and high explosives are handled in a quiet, clean plant. A joint UK-Canadian proving ground tests shells from Canadian and American guns, measuring velocities with sensitive instruments.
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Quebec
Dominion Arsenal
Old
Canada
New France
Dominion
United Kingdom
Proving Grounds
Canadian Shell Factories Rapidly Expand to Meet War Needs
Canadian ammunition plants in Quebec Brownsburg and across the East and West are turning out shells of all sizes for army air force and navy. Inspectors check every lot with few rejects, and production lines emphasize precision as rough forgings shrink from about 29–30 pounds to a finished shell of 2 pounds 10 ounces after processing.
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Brownsburg
P.Q
Canada
Flying Over the Atlantic On a Magic Carpet
A narrative recount of crossing the Atlantic aboard the Dixie Clipper from New York to Lisbon, detailing the luxury, the five editors aboard, the new Airways Terminal, the flight’s scale and comforts, the long journey, a thunderstorm near Portugal, delays, and an eventual Lisbon arrival before continuing to England.
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Atlantic
Icarus
Pegasus
New York
Lisbon
England
Ontario
Montreal
B. K. Sandwell
R. J. Renison
Toronto
Gratton O'Leary
Ottawa
Oswald Maryland
Liorel Shapiro
Washington
Portugese
Portugal
Salazar
Airways Terminal
Grand Central Station
Almaways
Jeff New York
Bermuda
Uncle Sam
New York Tube
Detroit
Europe
Dome of Heaven
Azores
Horta
Tagus River
Crotians Face Ban On Mixed Marriages
In London under German occupied policy a Crotian marriage to a non Aryan partner is punishable by six months imprisonment and loss of civil rights.
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London
CPO
England opens first training centre for glassworkers in empire
England launches the first training centre of its kind in the British Empire to teach glassblowing and glass instrument making to young workers. A government‑built factory after the war turns out lampblown apparatus, graduated glassware, thermometers, and precision instruments, boosting exports of glassware by up to 50 percent from 1939 levels.
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England
British Empire
Brandy Ration Issued to South African Troops in North Africa
In the Western desert of North Africa South African troops receive a periodic two ounce ration of pure brandy served by the service.
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Cairo
North Africa
Canada exports rise in early 1940 domestic trade
Domestic exports to all countries reached 1,170 million dollars in the first nine months of 1940, up from 807 million in the same period of 1939. Exports to Foreign and Empire countries increased about 38 percent, with manufactured iron and steel products leading the gains despite a strong agricultural rise.
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Canada
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Dominions
GRC
Crotian
USA
Beudertey
Barkuchy
Tata
Bank OF Montreal
Bank of Canada
Dominion Government
High Wade
Bank Juether
Tce
Huntly B. Drummond
Casadian
Fimamce
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