Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Waging War At Home

 I start today with another panel on women working in the war production industry.


C.D. Howe was one of Mackenzie King's cabinet ministers, responsible for production for the war effort.


One of the standard transport trucks of the era, against a backdrop of street facades.


The home front was affected in every way, as it was elsewhere. You had family signed up in the services. You were working directly or indirectly for the war effort. Or you were at the very least affected by rationing.


Children too were caught up in the war effort, with fathers or older brothers overseas. Games and books of the era are displayed here.


Veterans of the First World War formed the Veterans Guard.


Women stepped up to serve directly in various capacities.


A window filled with grocery items of the time and an old photograph. I'd be in serious trouble with that kind of sugar ration.


By 1942, Canadian soldiers based in Britain among other Allied forces had yet to see combat. They were spending their time in training exercises. That would change, in a place called Dieppe.

36 comments:

  1. Well. Bad as it sounds, but this gave women a way to prove they can do the work, too.
    Crazy that (here) still today in some/ many companies women still get less money for the same job...
    And I don´t speak of jobs where man-POWER is required that "we" simply usually don´t have.

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  2. My mother worked in a wartime factory in the UK, assembling small coils and other components, though for security reasons she never knew what it was that she was making.

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  3. The war, at least the second one, changed women’s roles, even though most reverted right afterward.

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  4. Hello,
    Women are hard workers, at whatever job they have. Take care, have a happy day!

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  5. Interesting to see that VGC served in Newfoundland. A family member walked into an armoury in Newfoundland as a child and swore there were soldiers and prisoners there. I always wondered about that story. I can’t find much written about war prisoners in Newfoundland.

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  6. ...but today we actually are waging war at home.

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  7. The transport trucks were massive and look a bit cumbersome, but no doubt they got the job done.

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  8. @Cloudia: you're welcome.

    @Iris: one positive of a war.

    @Italiafinlandia: you're welcome.

    @John: that's not a surprise.

    @Anvilcloud: true, but it did shift things and set a foundation for women's rights down the road.

    @Eileen: that is true.

    @Marie: POWs ended up here. A lot harder to escape with a whole ocean between you and home.

    @Tom: your country especially.

    @Gemel: they did indeed.

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  9. In the neighborhood where I grew up, a company had a number of scrap cars in the 1960s, including an old transport truck like the one in your third photo. I have played in and around that truck for many hours. :-)

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  10. War is tough for everyone. It is through hard times that women rose up to prove that they can be good workers and contributors to society.

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  11. Great references to the work women did during the war.

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  12. Women were given work for a while that was then taken away from them later.

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  13. I find the home front a fascinating topic.

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  14. War certainly changed things at "home."

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  15. The design of the transport trucks, capture the imagination.

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  16. Another informative war display ~

    Wishing you a Happy Day,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  17. Thanks for another great part of history.

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  18. @Magiceye: built to last.

    @Jan: that's not a surprise.

    @Nancy: that is true.

    @Sharon: I thought so.

    @RedPat: but things would change.

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  19. @Jeanie: it's a complicated subject.

    @Red: that it did.

    @Maywyn: tough and reliable.

    @Carol: thank you.

    @Denise: you're welcome.

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  20. I am reading a fascinating book about a female cryptanalyst during WWII. Without her efforts, I don't know if we would have prevailed.

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  21. Did you see the article in today's news about the WWII letter that just arrived at its destination? :-)

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  22. Great visit…I always enjoy seeing the grocery items from back then!

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  23. I have a vague memory of rationing from when I was a small child. Of my mother and the neighbor ladies trading coupons and borrowing things like sugar etc. My dad was away, serving in the Navy, but that just seemed normal to me.

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  24. My granddaughter demolished half a ten pound bag a week.

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  25. Yes, those women were good, strong hard working ladies!

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  26. Women certainly proved their worth that's for sure.

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