peacetime recruiting poster, NAVAL SERVICE OF CANADA
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19940001-980
- Event 1902-1914 Between the Wars
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Queen's Printer
- Date Made Circa 1912
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Advertising medium
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1907/01/01
- Latest 1917/12/31
- Inscription (recto) NAVAL SERVICE / OF CANADA / H.M.C.S. RAINBOW. / THE CANADIAN NAVY PRESENTS / GREAT ATTRACTIONS TO MEN AND BOYS / ONLY STRONG, HEALTHY AND WELL EDUCATED MEN AND BOYS ARE REQUIRED AND THEY MUST BE OF GOOD CHARACTER.
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Naval Service of Canada
- Unit HMCS Rainbow
- Measurements Height 71.0 cm, Width 102.0 cm
- Related activity Recruiting
- Caption Naval Service of Canada Recruiting Poster
- Additional Information This poster describes the sorts of recruits - both men and boys - wanted for Canada's newly created naval service. HMCS Rainbow forms the central focus, but the poster also highlights aspects of naval life, including gunnery and signals training, and presents an alluring scene of sailors landing on a beach. Following the creation of the Naval Service, over 800 men and boys were recruited by posters like this one. The 1911 election of Sir Robert Borden's Conservative government, which had opposed the creation of the navy while in Opposition, saw these numbers slashed to 350, and HMCS Niobe consigned to port.
- Caption Naval Service of Canada Recruitment Poster
- Additional Information This recruitment poster uses imagery of HMCS Rainbow and various naval trades. Some of the activities depicted, including signalling and gunnery training, accurately reflect aspects of life aboard Rainbow, but others would prove somewhat exaggerated. Rainbow initially conducted training cruises and fisheries patrols but, from mid-1912, budget cuts and inattention to the navy largely confined Rainbow to local voyages with a skeleton crew.