Reading Time: 6 minutes More than 40,000 young women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.
Women who fed a nation
The forced Japanese-Canadian farmers of the Second World War
Reading Time: 6 minutes Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
Canada’s ‘Harvest for Victory’ in the Second World War
Reading Time: 5 minutes Propaganda posters celebrating farming show the legacy of Canadian agriculture during the Second World War.
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