No Day Long Enough: Canadian Science in World War II

More than one million Canadians served in uniform during the Second World War. The story of their efforts and sacrifices is one field that has often been told and is known to most Canadians.

Less well-known is the story of the nation’s scientists and engineers, many of them just out of university at the time, who toiled endless hours in the name of the war effort. Led by a handful of visionaries, these youngsters, most with more enthusiasm than experience, developed the technologies Canada needed to arm and support our fighting services. For them, racing against the clock in a war against a ruthless and often savage enemy, there was no day long enough to allow them to complete everything they’d hoped to do by each day’s end.

The stories in this book, most of them first-hand accounts, give us a glimpse of their hard work and triumphs during a war they had to win.