Helping POWs
Canadians were determined fund-raisers in both world wars, and at any given time energetic groups were trying to raise money for dozens of different causes. This raffle was probably to send food parcels to Canadian prisoners of war in Germany.
ticket, Raffle in aid of the Prisoners of War Fund, Victoria, British Columbia, 7 June 1917
raffle ticket, 17.7cm x 7.3cm
War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
First World War