“Your Emergency Pack”

Your Emergency Pack

Civil Defence of Canada
Produced for Civil Defence by Information Services Division
Department of National Health and Welfare
By authority of the Minister
Honourable J. Waldo Monteith
Ottawa, 1959

Emergency Pack for Refuge or Truck of Car

Essential:

  • Water – 2 quarts
  • A seven-day food supply (per person) including utensils for eating, and a can opener (See recommended list). NOTE: Those without private transportation should take as much food as possible to carry.
  • Blanket (at least one per person)
  • Blanket pins (8)
  • Safety matches
  • One pair wool socks (per person)
  • Infant care items (if required)
  • Essential medicine (insulin, etc.)
  • Candles, axe, flashlight and batteries, shovel, Javex and covered pail for emergency toilet facilities in refuge

Desirable

  • Additional water if space and containers are available
  • Plastic-type raincoat
  • Hand towel (one per person)
  • Soap
  • Personal items (toothbrush, comb, razor, sanitary supplies, etc.)
  • Pocket knife
  • Personal papers and valuables
  • First Aid Kit, facial tissues, extra sweater, portable battery radio, Non-electric type heating unit and spare fuel, cooking utensil, water-proof sheet; sash, cord, rope, or heavy binder twine; lantern with quality of oil in safety tin; change of clothing; nails; old newspapers; whistle; reading material; games for children

     

GAS: Never let your car tank get less than half full.

Discuss with your local director or provincial co-ordinator other civil defence programs for the survival of you and your family.


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John Diefenbaker and John F. Kennedy seated and chatting in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
John Diefenbaker with John F. Kennedy
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John G. Diefenbaker and Olive Diefenbaker with the Kennedys
Creator: Unknown

Subject: Canada – Head of Government | United States – Head of State | Parliament Hill

Description: John and Olive Diefenbaker with John F. and Jackie Kennedy on Parliament Hill Date Created: [1961]

Date Created: [1961]

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD6587XC

John Diefenbaker and John Kennedy
Creator: Unknown

Subject: Canada – Head of Government | United States – Head of State

Description: John Diefenbaker and John Kennedy walking outside the White House, Washington, 1961

Date Created: 1961

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD2210XB

Formal photo of John G. Diefenbaker
Creator: Ashley and Crippen

Subject: Canada – Head of Government

Description: John G. Diefenbaker in formal pose sitting on chair, hands on back of chair Date Created: [ca. 1958]

Date Created: [v./ca. 1958]

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD1966XC

John Diefenbaker talking with John Kennedy
Creator: Dominion-Wide Photographs

Subject: Canada – Head of Government | United States – Head of State

Description: As crowd looks on, John Diefenbaker and John Kennedy walk down street in Ottawa, 16 May 1961

Date Created: 16 May 1961

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD1400

John Diefenbaker with John Kennedy
Creator: Unknown

Subject: Canada – Head of Government | Canada – Head of State | United States – Head of State

Description: John and Olive Diefenbaker with John and Jackie Kennedy and George and Pauline Vanier

Date Created: 16 May 1961

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD1388

John Diefenbaker with John Kennedy
Creator: Unknown

Subject: Canada – Head of Government | United States – Head of State | 24 Sussex Drive

Description: John Diefenbaker and John F. Kennedy seated and chatting in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

Date Created: 20 February 1961

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD1378

John Diefenbaker with John Kennedy
Creator: Unknown

Subject: Canada – Head of Government | United States – Head of State | 24 Sussex Drive

Description: John Diefenbaker and John F. Kennedy seated and chatting in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

Date Created: 20 February 1961

Identifier: MG01/XVII/JGD1378


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Telephone conversation between John Diefenbaker and President John F. Kennedy, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
2:14

Telephone conversation between John Diefenbaker and President John F. Kennedy, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

Creator:Unknown

Subject:Canada – Head of Government | United States – Head of State | Communication Systems – Canada and the United States | Yukon Territory

Description:John Diefenbaker, from the ceremony opening the Whitehorse Microwave System, shares a telephone conversation with United States President John F. Kennedy, who is in the Eastern United States; both men praise the partnership between their two countries which made the Microwave System possible

Date Created:22July1961

Identifier:MG01/XVIII/T58-JGD57

Speech by John Diefenbaker to open 1957 federal election campaign at Massey Hall, Toronto
1:24

Speech by John Diefenbaker to open 1957 federal election campaign at Massey Hall, Toronto

Creator:Unknown

Subject:Canada – Parliamentarians | Canada – Personalities | Canada – Election Campaigning | Canada – Opposition to International Communism | Canada – Relationship with the United States

Description:John Diefenbaker explains the Progressive Conservative Party’s policies in regards to freedom from communism and the leadership the United States provides, internationally, in ensuring the survival of freedom

Date Created:25April1957

Identifier:MG01/XVIII/T134-PAC6a


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