Medically unfit to fight, Brampton resident Ivan Melhuish stayed on the home front during the Second World War, working at a slaughterhouse in Toronto.

Canada Packers, a forerunner of today’s Mississauga-based Maple Leaf Foods, operated a plant in what is now Toronto’s trendy Stockyards District. They’d prepare meat for the soldiers as well as residents of Britain and Canada.

A self-professed pack-rat, Ivan kept lots of items related to the war, including 296 war posters. Since 1979, these have been in the collection of the Region of Peel Archives.

This poster, urging people on the home front to avoid food waste, seems relatively rare.