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Continuity Or Change
Farmers having trouble with unemployment and keeping their farms was definitely a big change for them because back in WWI farmers were selling and making crops like crazy with massive financial success, so them not doing well financially and struggling to sell their crops was definitely a big change for them. This change was certainly a very negative change for farmers because many of them surfed great loss in loosing their farms and not being able to afford items like clothes or food as well. -
Farmers Trouble With Unemployment
During the early 1930's the great depression hit Canada and many farmers were loosing their farms and becoming unemployed all across the country. This was because many family's did not have a lot of money due to many things like the stock market crash, and prices dropped so farmers were trying to produce more crops to pay for their taxes, loans, debts, and their farms. When the prices dropped so low that corn could be sold for 10 cents, many farmers lost their farms and then were unemployed. -
Farmers Trouble With The Dust Bowl
During 1935, farmers were hit with one of their toughest challenges, massive droughts and dust storms. These droughts and dust storms hit the Prairies or Canada and ruined farmers agriculture and destroyed their crops. Without the rain and water the soil was not good enough to plant crops which intern made them have to conduct deep plowing so they could find good soil. Along with the droughts came massive dust storms, these storms effected visibility and greatly effected agriculture as well. -
Continuity Or Change
The dust bowl was definitely a change for farmers as they had never experienced something this terrible. Before the dust bowl farmers were having successful years in their fields but right when these droughts hit it changed their crop production and their way of farming, also they never had to work this hard for crops before. This change was definitely a negative change for farmers because it lowed their crop production which lowed their revenue and weakened the economy of Canada in the process. -
Continuity Or Change
Indigenous people joining and fighting in the war is actually a continuity as in WWI they were also enlisting and fighting in the war but with fewer numbers than they had in WWII. This is a really positive continuity as it was another great step in the right direction for Indigenous people and their community's. Indigenous people fighting in WWII showed Canada that they are Canadians too and they want to defend and protect Canada just as much if not more than the rest of the country wants too. -
Indigenous People Fighting In WWII
During 1939 Canada was going into their second world war and they needed as many soldiers as possible so Indigenous people enlisted into the army, navy, and air force. At least 3090 first Nations fought in the war as well as thousands of Métis, Inuit, and other indigenous community's. Many indigenous soldiers joined the war despite the racism and troubles they had with white men and woman. A lot of Indigenous people fought in the war and most of them are not recognized for their actions today. -
Continuity Or Change
Woman working on the home front was a continuity for them as in WWI they were working on the home front filling in for those soldiers over seas as well. I feel like this was a great continuity as it allowed woman to get another taste of working more in the workforce and working at "men's jobs." Without this continuity I feel like woman would have not pushed so hard to be in the workforce and them being in the workforce in WWII allowed them to realize that they can do these "man jobs" as well. -
Woman On the Canadian Home Front
During 1942 while the men were off in war, woman held down the fort back home. Woman started to work in factory's and different industry's like the shipping yards or at the airfields supporting the home front and filling in for the soldiers at war. This was due to the lack of labor because with the war they needed a lot of supplies and different items to be mass produced so they needed a lot more labor to work in factory's and industry's, they called upon woman to fill in those labor shortages. -
Indigenous People & Camp Ipperwash
During 1942 the Canadian government and the Department Of National Defense took land in the southwest region of Canada located in Ontario. This land was being occupied by First Nations people and was said to be given back to them after WWII. This land was used for it's natural resources and was also used as a boot camp for training Canadian soldiers. When the war finally concluded First Nations people refused the offer to gain back Ipperwash, Camp Ipperwash was then used as a boot camp in 1948. -
Continuity Or Change
Camp Ipperwash was a continuity for Indigenous people as they were always treated as if they did not have a say or were not really too welcome in Canada. In WWI they were looked at as if they were these strangers or aliens to Canada and now in WWII they got their land stripped away from them and they never got a say in the matter because their opinion and/or thoughts did'int really matter at the time. This was definitely a negative continuity as no won should be treated like they were treated. -
Woman Join The Canadian Forces
During 1942 men in the war were off over seas fighting and defending Canada and Canada was loosing soldier might as the war had been going on for a while now with many soldier casualties. Because Canada needed more soldiers they called upon woman back home to fill in the missing soldiers positions in the army and on the front lines. Canada recruited woman all across Canada to fight in the war and woman were exited to join in the war effort as well as participate in the war doing a "man's role." -
Continuity Or Change
Woman joining the war was a massive change for them as back in WWI they were not allowed in the military and were only allowed to participate in the war effort by being back home on the home front. This was such a positive change for woman as it allowed them to get a taste of the war and this may be one of the reason why after the war they pushed really hard for having the same duty's that men have. Them participating in this war was massive for the future of woman and their rights/duty's also. -
Bibliography Pt 1
“Camp Ipperwash.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 July 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Ipperwash. Canada, Veterans Affairs. “Women at War.” Historical Sheet - Second World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada, 14 Feb. 2019, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/women. “Dust Bowl.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Feb. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl. -
Bibliography Pt 2
“The Great Depression Hits Farms and Cities in the 1930s.” Iowa PBS, 12 Feb. 2018, www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/great-depression-hits-farms-and-cities-1930s. “Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indigenous-peoples-and-the-second-world-war#:~:text=In%201939%2C%20Canada%20found%20itself,%2C%20navy%2C%20and%20air%20force. -
Bibliography Pt 3
Museum, Canadian War. “Life on the Home Front: Women and the War on the Home Front.” WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - Women and the War on the Home Front - Canada and the War, www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/canadawar/women_e.html#:~:text=Life%20on%20the%20Home%20Front,War%20on%20the%20Home%20Front&text=In%201943%2D1944%2C%20some%20439%2C000,sectors%20of%20the%20Canadian%20economy.&text=Women%2C%20for%20example%2C%20worked%20in,workforce%20in%20Canada's%20aircraft%20industry.