Le 178ieme Bataillon Canadien-Français des cantons de l'est – 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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Le 178ieme Bataillon Canadien-Français des cantons de l'est comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Le 178ieme Bataillon Canadien-Français des cantons de l'est
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This recruiting image carries the slogan "Comme toujours nous y sommes," or "As always, we are there," in the name of the 178th Battalion, a French-speaking Canadian unit. The phrase presents military service as a long-standing French-Canadian tradition, and it was aimed at men who might answer a call to serve in their own language. Wartime recruitment in Quebec often leaned on this kind of appeal, because enlistment there was tangled up with questions of language, religion and loyalty to Britain and Canada. Posters like this one show how the army tried to make service feel familiar to francophone men.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 105 x 68 cm. |
|---|---|
| Genre | c'est le devoir." "J'y vais ..." Title from item." |
| Notes | Ottawa : The Mortimer Co. Limited, [1915] |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--Canada. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,540 × 5,724 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225826 |
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