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CANADA’S VETERANS
Thelh Pest-Wlar Chportanities

This is the first of a seri

the [ es of advertisemen inf = =
zupeorle of Canada of nine hl = fo) norm d Ey For complete information wnte for
women oc the men and z 3 ue en Foe)
om Sed 3 ned forces. To get the full details save : Ke See ghe booklet “Back to Givil Life;

The Future After Discharge — |
" AMESSAGE TO RELATIVES OF THOSE IN THE ARMED FORCES

When your boys and your girls come home, when they lay aside the uniform, when they go out

into the world as normal peace-loving lies ahead? Can they pick up their lives
> as civilians, where they laid them down, ? Are there plans to help them
do the things they wanted to do before the wat security? Can they continue

education, oF receive needed training? Will they be i owning, or to establish
- their own business, and will they be enabled to pick up i

These are questions which concern all those Canadians who have loved ones in the services. They
are questions which this series of advertisements 1s designed to answet-

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a OPPORTUNITY IS THE OBJECTIVE E GRATUITY TRAINING ARD EDUCATION
Ee making plans for your boy's and enlisted to serve outside The surest way 0 permanent employment
: to civilian life since early in 1940- Canada, or those who served in the Aleutian ching your boy or git! will want—is 2 ckill to ert
ing now. The Telands, are eligible for a wat service gratuity- and to hold a job. Canada's plans give opportunity
rovides $7.50 for each thirty “service in to acquire needed dail either at university Of in
Thousands, already: back in the Western Hemisp : preparation for 2 pusiness of industrial career. Fees
tted by training, by main: service overseas OF 3M are paid by the state, along with living allowances,
tenance grants, by. advice of departmental officials, those with overseas SEFViCE while training or continuing education.
: os : S35 : ¢ Aleutian Islands, there 15
and by the social Sec PO is and allowances for : 3
enn eee those men and women WT2 Sie ve. Payments willbe WHILE ILL OR UNEMPLOYED
Ip themselves. z

follow-
ing discl esas Enso d There is protection against illness or unemployment

5 s z : by maintenance allowances W. ich can drawn
ASSISTANCE ON DISCHARGE gratuity will be given § 5 ee ee

against in the first eighteen months after discharge-
When your boys and girls are discharged fon RE-ESTABLISHMENT CREDIT ti ae Unemployment
the services, they wall be given: In addition to the wat service gratuity, there is a me cet ct, fou bee ene oa

1. A dlothing allowance 0 €$100.00 GE aeStarcell re-establishment cre dit of $7.50 for e ch thirty ployment and remain in it fifteen weeks.
after August 1, 1944) days: service in the Western Hemisphere and $15 00
? : for each thirty days’ service oversea: This isfor iQME OWNING ABD F ARMING

2. Their pay to date of discharge- things such as. the purchase or repair of a home, 2 ve Sayers

3. One month’s ad ditional pay, if they have 193 «the buying of furniture, a business, oF government There is provision to assist city and other workers
days’ continuous service, 2S @ rehabilitation Jife insurance, and for certain other purposes which tg bavelbone ofthe owe Bune onsmnall eae

> will assist your boy or yout girl in pbecomin! of land outside the high taxation area, OF 10 town,

grant established. This credit, which is reduced by grants under the National Housing Act. Full-time farmers

4. A railway warrant home or to the place of given for training OF education, OF under the can be given financial assistance 1n

enlistment. Veterans Land Act, 1s pumarily for those who
do not wish assistance under these three plans.

full-time farming,

while commercial fishermen may secure financial

help in getting their own homes, on small acreages
f land, and 1 i ing equi

i. Their normal dependents’ allowance to date RETURN TO FORMER JOBS of and,yand 2 Euyine needed fishing eqypment

of discharge, with assigned pay-

Dependents will receive:

If your boy or girl held’ a civilian ition before
2. Anadditional month's dependents’ allowance, enlisting, and was not engaged to ne somebody FREE TREATMENT :
with assigned pay, if there bas been 183 days’ already in the forces, and if the position still'exists, In the year following discharge, service men and
continuous service- and your boy or girl is capable of filling it, it is the «women ate eligible for free treatment, hospitaliza-
; employers duty, under the law of Canada, tion and allowances for any condition, even if not
I to reinstate bim or her in that position with the result of service. Pensioners ate entitled to this
seniority. Application for reinstatement must be for life for their pensioned disability-

‘fe i made to the former employer within three months

of discharge from the forces or from hospital.

continuing: treatmentand unable to | Veterans’ Welfare Officers are stationed im key |}! Canada’s Pension Act is administered “by en
their pay and allowances of rank continued for at hour Canada. They are the independent commission, all former members of the

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feast a year ifi necessary and, if, the disability is | 32 ae 3 a ee ee services. Any permanent disability suffered ovet-

tijghment problems. . seas, not a result of misconduct, is pensionable.
© Rehabilitation Where service is in Canada only, the disability
must be a result of scrvice- :

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jonable; for as long: as curative treatment 1s
beneficial. Allarein jewed by. Veterans’ Welfare
_ Officers and told of the re-establishment progremnk-

Published under the authority of Hon. Ton A- Mackenzie, Minister of
PENSIONS AND NATIONAL HEALTH

e ye g¢senp THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO SOME MAN OX WOMAN OVESESS
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