Victory Loan drive urged to exceed 5 million objective
Lethbridge and 19 surrounding districts push to top the 5,160,500 goal as the Eighth Victory Loan campaign opens with officials confident of surpassing previous totals. In 1944 the Seventh Drive saw Lethbridge surpass its 4,198,000 objective by 6,062,650, helping southwestern Alberta pass 30,000,000 in Second Great War securities. Officials urge every resident to invest, stressing support for servicemen and postwar reintegration.
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Alberta
Lethbridge
Canada
Europe
A. G. Baalim
Lethbridge Victory Loan Committee
Germany
Victory Loan drive launches in southwestern Alberta
Hundreds of workers prepare for a three week campaign to recruit subscribers for the Victory Loan. Opening day features a parade, flag raising, and a radio prize show to encourage home bond purchases. A new district, Lethbridge Northeria, forms from Coaldale and Macleod units, adjusting quotas for the eighth campaign.
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Alberta
Victory Loan corner
barracks square
Fourth Avenue
Victory Loan
Lethbridge
Cossdale
Macleod
Lethbridge Opens Eighth Victory Loan Drive With Call to Citizens
A. G. Baalim, chair of the Lethbridge Victory Loan Committee, urges residents to support the eighth campaign as Canada nears the war’s end. He notes the city’s $1,500,000 quota and stresses continued spending to aid returning veterans, urging buy Bonds with savings and instalments. He praises past efforts and calls a half day for sales.
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CJOC
Lethbridge
A. G. Baalim
tours
Dominion of Canada
Canada
ciizen
Army Objective Here Set At 74000
Announcement sets the Eighth Victory Loan quota for Military District No 13 at 760000, the highest Alberta army objective in any drive, though well under the 1250000 subscribed by soldiers and the Canadian Women's Army Corps in the seventh drive. Lethbridge POW camp personnel are assigned 27a.Men, Medicine Hat camp at 48000. Noted woman leader Catherine Wealgh McCullouch, 82, dies in Evanston after two weeks illness. she was a prominent attorney and active in national suffrage and temperance movements.
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Military District No. 13
Alberta
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
EVANSTON
Ill
Catherine Wealgh McCullouch
Ulness
How Units Went Over In 7th Victory Loan
Officials and workers oversee a major drive in Lethbridge and 19 district units including a new Lethbridge Northern unit as they report the sequence of over-the-top progress from the Seventh Victory Loan campaign. First Day Pincher Creek Magrath. Third Day Lethbridge Barons Stavely. Fourth Coleman. Eighth Day Vulcan Milk River Courts. Ninth Macleod. Tenth Blairmore Frank. Eleventh Warner Claesholm-Granum. Twelfth Cardslon. Thirteenth Bellevue Hull creat. Fourteenth Champion Carmangay. Fifteenth Raymond. Sixteenth Coaldale Foremost. Seventeenth Day Taber.
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Lethbridge
Barons
Bellevue-Hillcrest
Blairmore- Frank
Cardston
Champion-Carmangay
Claresholm-Granum
Coaldale
Coleman
Lethbridge Northern
Macleod
Magrath
Milk River Coutts
Pincher Creek
Quotas Drafted for Lethbridge Victory Loan Drive
Lethbridge assigns its $1,500,900 Victory Loan quota across seven canvassing groups. Air Force Rotary Club authorized $176,500. Navy Gyro Club $154,250. Yard Comrades $186,600. Artillery Kiwanis Club $159,400. Infantry Lions Club $173,250. Paratroop Payroll $300,000. Home Guard Banks $350,000.
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Lethbridge
Air Force
Navy
Artillery
Infantry
Lions Club
Canada launches Eighth Victory Loan drive with 675m individual target
Canada aims for a minimum 1.35 billion total Victory Loan, 50 million above prior, with 675 million from individuals. About 150000 loan workers, 100000 in plants, will solicit bonds via payroll deductions. Two bond maturities set, three percent long term and 1.5 percent short term, with issues dated May 1 1945 and 100 price.
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UAWA
Canada
National War Finance committee
Maine
cne
ENCLES
Tate
armed services
isan Sa
Isley
Germany
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