Other Duties: Arms Shipments, Translations, and Red Scares

These documents allude to the wide range of subjects covered by the wartime liaison between Canadians and the BSC.

For instance, in October 1941, the BSC sought Canadian assistance greasing and shipping small arms to England. These were presumably sourced in the US before the Americans' entry into the war because it was treated as a secret “MI5 job.” BSC officers like H. Montgomery Hyde also took advantage of Canadian resources when they needed support with miscellaneous tasks like Finnish-language translation. The documents also show that anticommunism was never far from the surface among Canadian and American security officials. When communist buttons from Chicago were discovered at Camp Borden, Canadian military intelligence officers raised concerns about how they were getting into Canada.