Women and their contribution to the war
The Canadians on the home front who were most deeply affected by the war were the families and friends of troops over seas. To distract themselves from their worries many of them got busy and joined war efforts.
- Hundreds of thousands of women got jobs outside of home, some for the first time in their lives.
- The women worked in new war industries and filled jobs vacated by men overseas
- Many women worked for the red cross, volunteered at soldiers canteens and did things little as knitting socks for soldiers
- unfortunately women were expected to give up their jobs to men once they had returned from war
- It was a new change for Canadian women because they took on jobs such as building ships to driving buses
- Canada's war industries had a large number of women that took on many jobs that were limited in the first world war but as women took action in Canada's work industries mostly women produced
- 4047 naval vessels
- 16 418 aircraft's
- 815 729 military vehicles
- Rifles
- Sub machine guns
- Anti-tanks
- Anti-aircraft gun
- Radar equipment
- Ammunition
- ships
- fighter planes