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Women Filling In New Jobs With The Start Of WW1 (1914)

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Women Filling In New Jobs With The Start Of WW1 (1914)

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With the start of World War 1, many women were left without any source of income to support their families.  With this knowledge, the IMP (Imperial Munitions Board) which was only worked by men before was now accepting women creating a tremendous amount of opportunities for women working in ammunition factories.

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Women Finding Other Ways To Contribute In The War (1914)

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Women Finding Other Ways To Contribute In The War (1914)

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With Women not being allowed to serve in the war, they had to find other ways to help and contribute.  This image shows a group of students in Queen's University working hard to knit things like pillows, sheets, flannels shirts, balaclavas to be shipped out to the men at war. This was just one of the many ways women were able to contribute back at the Homefront.

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The Canadian Patriotic Fund was a voluntary organization that was made to raise money financially support the soldiers and their families.  This allowed families where the women may not have been able to find a job right or was not making enough to financially supporting their family.

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Young Canadians Being Taught How They Can Help (1914)

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Young Canadians Being Taught How They Can Help (1914)

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Canada as a whole was going to anything they could if it meant increases their chances of winning at war.  One of their ideas was to use all their platforms such as schools, churches and the government to teach Canadian children tactics and techniques such as recycling materials, saving money, rationing, gardening and many more.

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Red Cross Packages For The Soldiers (1915)

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Red Cross Packages For The Soldiers (1915)

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The Red Cross organization was founded by Dr. Ryerson and was made to help collect food, clothing and money for the sick and wounded. This image shows men standing next to packages full of healthcare that would be shipped out to help with the men at war.

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Women Practicing Their Rifle Aim If Needed (1915)

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Women Practicing Their Rifle Aim If Needed (1915)

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This image depicts Toronto women practicing their rifle skills in preparation if the men at war needed reinforcements so they would be able to defend for their country.  At the time(1915), the most direct contribution women were allowed to do was taking care of wounded soldiers.

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African Canadian Men And Their Contribution In The War (1916)

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African Canadian Men And Their Contribution In The War (1916)

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Initially, African Canadian men were almost always not allowed to serve in the war because of the prejudice attitudes of the ones in charge of enlisting the soldiers.  They were only allowed to join later on as Canada was in need of more soldiers to be able to participate on a larger scale.  On July 5th 1916 Nova Scotia had the first large black military unit.

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Women Filling In Risky Jobs As Well (1917)

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Women Filling In Risky Jobs As Well (1917)

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With women finally given more opportunity to support their family and then men out in war, there was a big need for jobs including the high risk jobs.

These images depict a TNT explosion in 1917 setting the ammunition factory into flames fatally killing workers and citizens outside of the building.

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1918 was the year that women being allowed to vote was finally legalized.  After years of Canadian suffragists had stood up and fought for their rights and equality, they were finally awarded their rights to vote shortly after the war had ended and the troops came back to Canada.

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In 1918 the Spanish flu had made its way to Canada.  It was first introduced by a train coming from the east and arriving in Calgary and eventually making its way around Canada.  The flu was very transmittable and with the absence of non local news sources, not everyone had known about it and it ended up killing around 50,000 Canadians.