Join the Canadian Grenadier Guards – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Join the Canadian Grenadier Guards comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Canadian Grenadier Guards were a Montreal militia regiment, and this 1914 poster ties recruiting directly to that local identity. After Britain declared war and Canada committed troops to the Empire's cause, militia regiments became a major source of volunteers for the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Posters like this one were displayed on city walls and boards to turn regimental pride into enlistment. Its record also credits the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, an American wartime agency founded in 1917, which shows that the lithograph's later history crossed the border.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 105 x 71 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation sponsor. |
| Subjects | Canada. Canadian Army--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. Soldiers--Canadian--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,908 × 6,134 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 431_Join_the_Canadian_Grena_1914 |
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