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her Allies during the war, this project will he position as a great trading nation in the peace. For

’l‘he_se seven Canadian-lauilt corvettes and minesweepers, launched at Sore], Que, t_v'p1fy'_Cai1ada’s production of sturdy ships, fast and manoeuvrable. The total launchings have been well over 1,000, including nearly 500 frigates, corvettes, minesweepers and other naval vessels, 183 tugs, 360 freighters and other craft.

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Long secret, the Sexton, a 25-pounder, full-tracked, self-propelled mount, brings devastation to the enemy everywhere it appears with the British and Canadian armies. Including the gun for the Sexton, Canada has made more than 70,000 gun barrels and more than 42,000 mountings since production began.

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_ _ wned Polymer synthetic rubber plant near Sarina, Ontario. Of inestimable value t0 Canada and

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history, Canada has produced, besides rubber, mercury, magnesium ingots, tin, tungsten, aviation gasoline blending agents, optical glass, new, plywoods, plastics, radio equipment, textiles. During the past two years, Canada has spent more than $8 0,000 a day ‘on all kinds of supplies.

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Canada's shell and ammunition production has run into fabulous gures. Cur factories from coast t0 coast have made more than 125,000,000 heavy proJec— tiles. Small arms ammunition production has totalled more than _4,300,000,000 rounds, enough to fire more than two bullets into every person in the world.

With war, the automobile industry-was turned completely to the manufacture of vehicles for the services-heavy servicedorries, ambulances, scout cars, gun tractors-almost every type of mechanical transport. More than 750,000 vehicles have been built, rigidly tested and delivered to the services.

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A quarter of thetotal Allied production of the Gurtiss Hell Diver, heaviest and largest dive-bomber used by any American air force, is being built in Canada where 15,500 planes of all types have been produced for war.

More than 3,600 tanks in large variety of types ha‘? been mass-produced in locomotive shops transforme

into tank arsenals. Many went, under Mutual Aid, W the Soviet armies, others saw action on every front.