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'Important Notice to Aliens'
20 June 1940

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The Price Ceiling Order Is Now Law
1 December 1941

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"STOP ALL THE PROFITEERS!
There must be no profiteering in Canada if war is declared. Men who may go into the trenches offer their lives to the country without thought of money. They give up jobs, and risk life and limb to defend a nation's cause. Business leaders of Canada must not be granted any sinister preference which would allow them to strike a profit out of war. To give them any such guarantee of profits would be a blasphemy.
Mr. Mackenzie King has promised there would be no profiteering. Speaking in the House of Commons March 30, 1939, the prime minister bluntly declared: 'In a war to save the liberty of others and thus our own, we should not sacrifice our own liberty or our own unity…Profits could and would be rigidly controlled, and profiteering suppressed.... - Edmonton Bulletin." (The Wetaskiwin Times, pg 2, Vol. XXXIX, No. 25, September 7, 1939)

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Householders Make Rush On Staple Foods
7 September 1939

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Ration Book 5
11 October 1944

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"RATION BOOK INSTRUCTIONS ARE ISSUED
Alberta's 54 Local Ration Boards have enlisted nearly 5000 volunte[e]rs to distribute Ration Book 5 from 700 distribution centres during Ration Book Week, October 14 to 21.
Weekly newspaper advertisements announcing the distribution centre in each community and specific dates of distribution, will be published.
To obtain Ration Book 5, fill in the K coupon sheet at the back of Ration Book 4, printing your name, address, prefix letters and serial number of your book. The age of children under 16 should be recorded beside the name.
...Those who neglect to pick up new ration books during distribution dates will have to wait until November 6…" (The Wetaskiwin Times, pg 1, Vol. XLIV., No. 30, October 11, 1944)

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Sugar Rationing by Coupon Is Now In Effect
1 July 1942

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"Meat, butter and sugar were rationed. Some jams were rationed; I think it depended on how much sugar there was in it. Meals were planned around the ration book, that's for sure."(Dorothy Runte, August 25, 2004)

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Butter rationing stamps
1942

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"Rationing came in about '41 and we had coupon books of course. There were separate coupon books for what was rationed." (Marg Baker, August 4, 2004)

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Meat Rationing Stamps
1941

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"MEAT TO BE RATIONED
One and one-third pounds of meat per person per week will be the new ration to Canadian consumers on resumption of meat rationing shortly, says Prices Board Chairman Donald Gordon.
It is expected to take nearly two months to get the machinery for meat rationing again in order, but commercial slaughtering controls came into effect, Monday, July 9. On Friday, July 13, the Prices Board again will introduce Canadians to meatless days in restaurants, scheduled for Tuesdays and Fridays. Housewives also will be asked to cooperate in conserving meat on those days.
Announcements forecast all meats and meat products will be covered in the new Canadian ration. Plastic tokens will be introduced to cover small purchases of meat, according to the Ration Administration.
Former meat ration in Canada of two pounds per person per week, designed to ensure equitable distribution, rather than conserve supplies. Shipping lines and refrigeration facilities then limited wholesale shipments of meat overseas. Now Canada is pledged to share her abundant meat supplies with the liberated countries of hungry, war-torn Europe." (The Wetaskiwin Times, pg 1, Vol. XLV., Wednesday, July 11, 1945)

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Individual Beer Ration Coupon Book No. 3
1944

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"For liquor rationing, you had to buy ration books for two dollars. The book was good for a year and it was like a permit. One guy knew three or four ladies who never drank. He gave them all two bucks so they could go buy the permits. They could buy the booze for him; when they came to town, he had someone take them to the vendors and go and buy the booze. When tires were rationed, he always had tires because he'd go to Edmonton with two or three bottles of whiskey. He'd go to the wholesaler and came back with tires - a little trade there." (George Wilson, August 10, 2004)