Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1978-12-2
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Reference number: MC2806-22
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Scope and Content
This illustration questions the rationale of the planes selected for the Canadian military by showing Barney J. Danson, Minister of National Defence, sitting in a bathtub playing with models of F18s saying, "At 6 million a piece they oughta float."
Title
Danson's "By The Short List"
Caption
News Item: Cabinet Approves Short List of fighter planes including F18 carrier-based jet without aircraft carrier.
Persons
Barney Danson
- Born Barnett Jerome Danson, February 8, 1921
- Liberal
- Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 1970 to 1974
- Appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of State for urban affairs, 1974
- Minister of National Defence, 1976 to 1979
- Former chairman of the advisory committee of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa
- Produced No Price Too High, a six-part series televised on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-TV on Canada's role in World War II
- Published autobiography, Not Bad for a Sergeant: The Memoirs of Barney Danson, in 2002
- Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996 and in 2000, was awarded the Vimy Award.