WWI Poster Campaign Why Posters? Television was not yet invented and not everyone owned a radio. Posters were found in public places and printed in magazines and newspapers These posters are examples of PROPAGANDA Propaganda: a systemic spreading of ideas influencing people to support a particular cause or point of view.

Marie…”How is he going to get down the chimney this year, Pierre?”

Early in the war, recruiters also rejected most visible minorities for military service. While many units embraced First Peoples for their skills, real or imagined, as snipers and scouts, they denied the applications of most black and Asian Canadian volunteers. Racist feelings ran deep, and the war effort overseas would be carried out largely by white Canadians.