Canadian War Services Fund, 1941 campaign
This letter reveals the impressive totals raised in the campaign to aid the Canadian Legion War Services, the IODE, the Knights of Columbus Canadian Army Huts, the Salvation Army Red Shield Fund, and the YMCA and YWCA War Services: over $613,000 in British Columbia, and over $7.2 million (over $131 million in 2024 values) in Canada as a whole.
J.B. Leyland, Secretary for B.C., Canadian War Services Fund, Vancouver, to Alderman Alex Courtenay, New Westminster, BC, 7 March 1942
t.l.s., 21.3cm x 35.3cm
Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory, and Popular Culture Archives - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Second World War