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120: 20: 143:. It coordinated all purchases made in Canada by British and other Allied governments for materials including military transport vehicles, tanks, cargo and military ships, aircraft, guns and small arms, ammunition as well as uniforms, minesweeping equipment, parachutes, firefighting equipment, and hospital supplies. 112:. By 1945, 70% of Canada's war production went to supply the Allies and only 30% was needed for Canada's own military. Among the production was 815,729 military vehicles, including 45,710 armoured vehicles, many of which went to the 151: 123:
Display of artillery and ammunition produced by the General Engineering Company (Canada) and Defense Industries Limited (Ajax) munition factories. Both factories were commissioned by the Government of Canada.
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The Department was dissolved at the conclusion of World War II and most of its crown corporations sold off. The remaining duties of the department were merged with those of the
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for the war effort and regulated the use of gasoline, silk and other strategic commodities in Canada order to prioritize their use for the war production.
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was created, with Howe as its minister until 1957. The department itself existed until 1969 when it was abolished and replaced by the
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S.C. 9-10 Geo. VI, c. 16, assented to on December 18, 1945 and proclaimed in force on January 1, 1946
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S.C. 15 Geo. VI, c. 4, assented to on March 21, 1951 and proclaimed in force on April 1, 1951
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S.C. 17-18 Eliz. II, ch. 28, assented to on March 28, 1969 and in force on April 1, 1969
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C D Howe (left) inspects the first tank to be manufactured in Canada on 27 May 1941, a
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By the end of the war, Canada's war production ranked fourth among the
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ministry responsible for co-ordinating domestic industry during
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Valentine
Canadian federal government
World War II
C.D. Howe
armaments
Wartime Industries Control Board
timber
steel
base metals
machine tools
oil
power
Allies
British Eighth Army

crown corporations
Polymer Corporation
Victory Aircraft
Research Enterprises
Department of Reconstruction
Department of Reconstruction and Supply
Department of Defence Production
Department of Supply and Services
J.L. Granatstein
"Arming the nation: Canada's industrial war effort 1939–1945"
the original
Imperial Munitions Board

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