wartime security poster, UNE INDISCRETION PEUT CAUSER UNE CATASTROPHE
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20010129-0231
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Jameson, Lionel Bell
Director of Public Information - Date Made 1939-1941
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Advertising medium
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1939/01/01
- Latest 1941/12/31
- Medium coloured printing ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Measurements Height 76.2 cm, Width 50.8 cm
- Caption Careless Talk Brings Tragedy in Wartime, undated Canada, Second World War
- Additional Information This poster describes a chain of indiscreet conversations that results in the destruction of a train. The soldier told his fiancée what time his troop train was leaving, she in turn told her father, who recounted the news at his club where a spy was present, who then spoke to the saboteur. Few German spies are known to have operated in Canada during the war, and there were no acts of sabotage, but the risk was real. German submarines operated in Canadian waters throughout the war, depositing a weather station and, on at least one occasion, a spy along the east coast.