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D-Day

Fourteen thousand Canadians of the third division landed on Juno Beach on June 6, 1944. After one day of heavy fighting the Canadians had captured a number of small Normandy towns and had pushed deeper into France than any of the other allied forces. The battles for the beach head resulted in 340 Canadian deaths, with another 574 being wounded. Many local men were taken prisoner by the Germans during this assault.

The successful landings on D-day marked the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany.

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Small Pack
World War II, 1939-1945
New Richmond, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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Putties
World War II, 1939-1945
New Richmond, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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Mess Tins
World War II, 1939-1945
New Richmond, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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Chesley Willett's Medals
World War II, 1939-1945
Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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On the Home Front....

A Hudson Bomber in New Richmond

This Hudson Bomber which used extensively on coastal patrols brought the war close to home when it made a forced landing in what is now Chaleurs Park in New Richmond, on January 19, 1944 at 6:30p.m. It came to rest in a hay field behind the Montgomery farm. A ski–equipped Norseman ferried in the repair crew and the local militia kept a 24 hour guard over the bomber during it's "visit." Following repairs over a ten-day period, the field was plowed, the Hudson took off, and New Richmond life returned to normal.

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Hudson Bomber in New Richmond
19 January 1944
New Richmond, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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War Turned to Art

Hilda Campbell, wife of Russel Campbell, made this quilt during the war years. The quilt documents all of the key events of World War II (and in particular records the military career of her son Charlie, including his 1, 325 day internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp).

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Quilt
World War II, 1939-1945
Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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Hazel Campbell holding Quilt
20th Century, Circa 1990's
Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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War Rationing . . .

As in the First World War, food shortages and rationing became a part of the reality of life on the home front. This new generation met the culinary challenges posed by strict rationing and developed new recipes. The following recipe was culled from a Sunbeam advertisement in the 1942 May issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine. This advertisement is for the new Sunbeam Mixmaster and a patriotic Sunbeam recipe is attached: "Mixmaster saves my time and energy for Red Cross work," the smiling woman in the ad declares.

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Sunbeam Victory Cake (No Sugar)

- ½ c. shortening
- 2 tsp. grated orange rind
- 1 c. white corn syrup
- 2 1/4 c. sifted cake flour
- 2 3/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tep. salt
- 2 eggs unbeaten
- ½ c. milk
- 1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract

Cream shortening and rind No. 8 speed 1 minute. Add 1/4 sifted dry ingredients gradually on No. 8. add eggs one at a time beating 1 min. after each. Scrape. Use No. 1 speed and add remaining flour micture in thirds alternately with milk and vanilla. Scrape. Bake in 2 greased 8" layer pans in moderate over of 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 min.

Icing:

- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1 egg
- ½ c. light corn syrup
- 1/4 tsp. lemon flavoring
- 1/4 tsp. almond flavoring

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Rationing Poster
World War II, 1939-1945

Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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Nazi Spy in New Carlisle

On the 9th of November, 1941 a German U-Boat submarine (U-518) entered the Bay of Chaleur on a mission to launch a spy named Werner von Janowski off the coast of New Carlisle. Lt. Werner von Janowski's mission was to land on the Gaspe and make his way to Montreal via the railways. He was supposed to operate under the guise of a radio salesman working for the North Electric Company based in Toronto under the alias of William Branton.

At 12:30am Lt. Werner von Janowski left the U-518 submarine. He spent the remainder of the night on the beach undercover of the cliffs and by 8:30am he was making his way towards New Carlisle. James E. Coull, a CNR Conductor, picked up him and drove him into town. He checked into the Carlisle Hotel with the intention of taking a bath and readying himself for the train that evening. Earle J. Annett Jr. was manning the reception desk and his suspicions were aroused by this stranger: Werner von Janowski claimed to have arrived that morning by bus but the earliest bus into town would only arrive at noon, he paid with money which was out of date, and he left European cigar wrappings and matches behind. Earle Annett Jr. alerted the authorities and that evening the train was boarded in Bonaventure so that Janowski's bags could be searched, he was arrested immediately following the search which turned up German radio transmitters.

An extensive search of Chaleur Bay was launched for the German U-Boat by the HMCS Burlington and Red Deer assisted by RCAF aircrafts. The U-518 submarine was not found. In the following 18 months Lt. Werner von Janowski turned double agent and worked with the RCMP in Montreal sending selected information to the Hamburg in Germany. After this period he was turned over the British Intelligence in England.