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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Allies, 1914–1918
Bushmen and Sawmill Hands Wanted: Join the 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion
224th Canadian Forestry Battalion, 1916
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A recruiting poster for the 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion, 1916, from the Archives of Ontario poster collection; the artist is unrecorded.
Why it matters
The battalion recruited lumbermen for the Canadian Forestry Corps, and the title asks for them by trade.
What to notice
The call names two trades, bushmen and sawmill hands, before it names the battalion.
An axe, enlisted with the man who swings it.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion, 1916
- Source
- Archives of Ontario (via Wikimedia Commons)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Canada, PD-Canada/en, PD-Canada/lang). Maker's death year unrecorded; the EU and UK term (life plus 70) cannot be confirmed, so exposure outside the US stands until it is. The Commons master is a 6840x10841 TIFF; the catalogue hangs its JPEG rendition, which is what is measured and printed.
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