Canada and The Homefront of WW1 by https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo en-us 2020-10-09 03:12:48 UTC 2025-05-19 23:33:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Women Filling In New Jobs With The Start Of WW1 (1914) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815908105
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.

]]> 2020-10-09 03:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815908105 Women Finding Other Ways To Contribute In The War (1914) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815917472 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.]]> 2020-10-09 03:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815917472 Canadian Patriotic Fund (1914) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815927735 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.]]> 2020-10-09 03:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815927735 Young Canadians Being Taught How They Can Help (1914) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815935160 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.

]]> 2020-10-09 03:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815935160 Red Cross Packages For The Soldiers (1915) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815941159 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.

]]> 2020-10-09 03:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815941159 Women Practicing Their Rifle Aim If Needed (1915) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815946884 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.

]]> 2020-10-09 04:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815946884 African Canadian Men And Their Contribution In The War (1916) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815949608 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.


]]> 2020-10-09 04:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815949608 Women Filling In Risky Jobs As Well (1917) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815953711 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.

]]> 2020-10-09 04:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815953711 Women Rights To Vote (1918) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815956674 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.

]]> 2020-10-09 04:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815956674 Spanish Flu (1918) juliancmou https://padlet.com/juliancmou/nvq4ozrvv1eqhbfo/wish/815958491 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.

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