HIST 260 Lecture Notes - Child Benefit, Elsie Macgill, Housewife
Document Summary
Canadian women contributed greatly to canada"s war effort. The queen made a special call to the women of canada, calling them to make their efforts. Council of women and women"s international league for peace and freedom and other organizations: most groups emphasized inter-nations arbitration and conciliation as the best way to achieve world order, some supported human rights for jews, interned japanese. Traditional voluntary sacrificial labour : women extended charitable work to the war effort. They knitted socks, scarves, and mitts, wrote letters, prepared parcels for canadians overseas: helped displaced persons providing cloths, food, setting up refugee centres, women"s organizations. Community and family values remained but increasing individualism was emerging. Federal civil service expanded, employing many women. This area becomes one of the most unionized sectors of women workers. At war"s end most women were retired (fired) Women enlisted to ration save, re-use, knit, write letters, plant, victory gardens, temporarily take on men"s roles.
