A pictorial map of Canada from the Second World War

A propaganda poster map of Canada, showing how the industry and agriculture of the continent was helping the war effort. Little vignettes mark the cattle, sheep, grain and wood regions, and icons note the various types of mining, with a key on the left. The map is decorated with a coat of arms and a large compass rose. A circular text box reads: 'All the enormous material resources of Canada and Newfoundland have been pledged, voluntarily and wholeheartedly for the battle against the Axis. From fields, factories and forests, from mines and mills and foundries, flows an ever-growing stream of metal, munitions, arms and food. Canada's great rivers supply the inexhaustible power that turns the lathes and speeds the work. Canada's sons fight side by side with their British kin on battlefields throughout the world'. Leslie MacDonald Gill (1884-1947), younger brother of Eric Gill, specialised in graphic design in the Arts and Crafts style. His most important commission was from the Imperial War Graves Commission, designing the script used on Commission headstones and war memorials, including the 'Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme'. He produced a number of maps, two of which appeared in the British Museum exhibition 'Magnificent Maps in 2010: 'The Wonderground Map of London' (1914) & 'Tea Revives the World' (1940). This was one of a series of wartime maps of the Commonwealth countries, including Australia and New Zealand.