Poster for the Canadian Forestry Battalion. "Bushmen and sawmill hands wanted". Ottawa, Canada

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McCord Stewart Museum via McCord Stewart Museum (via Wikimedia Commons)

Dates

1916 (indexed as 1916)

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Scope & content

Poster for the Canadian Forestry Battalion. "Bushmen and sawmill hands wanted". Ottawa, Canada. The war effort desperately needed timber for a variety of uses, including the building of bomb-proof dugouts in the trenches and timber ties for the rail lines that transported train-loads of supplies. During World War I, 22,000 members of the Canadian Forestry Corps were turning trees into timber for the Allied war effort. Most of the men were older than the C.E.F. average and had been turned down for service, but could use their special skills through the Canadian Forestry Corps.

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1916 in Ottawa; 238th Forestry Battalion; Canada in World War I in 1916; Lumberjacks in art; World War I recruitment posters from Canada

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Public domain Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Forestry_Battalion.jpg

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2026-10-16T17:36:44Z · source datestamp n/a · commons

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