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  1. Nov 2023
    1. it's remarkable to me once i started to dig in that the speed and scope of what we did as a country and actually what we specifically did here in british columbia
      • for: history - wartime mobilization - Canada

      • trivia: in 6 years, starting from zero, British Columbia produced

        • 750 ships (350 ships produced in British Columbia)
        • 16,000 military aircrafts (4th largest air force in the world)
        • 800,000 military vehicles (more than Germany, Italy and Japan combined)

    2. we had to mobilize up war production and then convert back to peace time all in the space of six years
      • for: trivia - Canada wartime mobilization

      • trivia: Canada wartime mobilization

        • In a period of 6 years, Canada ramped up to wartime mobilization and then returned to peace