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This is a continuity of thousands of years where women could not do the jobs men had, and could not support a family without a man to go out and work. After a short time of women being able to do the men's jobs during the war, as soon as it was over, it was right back to where they were before.
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Following the first World War, Canada was sent into a great economic depression. Men returning from the war front need jobs and women are forced to give up their jobs that were given to them by the high demand of the war. Up until the second world war began, women had an incredibly tough time, with little to no jobs or income. With so many men not returning from overseas, there were so many families left without any support -
One of the biggest contributors to the great depression was the excessive droughts known today as the "dust bowl". This destroyed our farmers and their supply of crops, and in doing so, drastically limited food supply for the whole country. This insane drought lasted until 1939, which coincidentally was when crops were needed more than ever. -
This was a totally new experience, never before seen by Canadian farmers. This change in environment for near a decade left so many jobless, and without food supplies.
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Unfortunately, this was a continuation of the last time, as the indigenous soldiers who volunteered and fought just the same as any white man did, and upon their return home the discrimination and mistreatment continued towards first nations peoples.
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With the outbreak of the second world war, Canadians were once again given to chance to volunteer to fight for the allied forces overseas. And just like the first world war, many indigenous men were lining up to join the forces. Whist in uniform, they were treated with as equal respect as any white Canadian soldier, but as soon as they returned home after the war they were right back to where they were before, with little rights, and even less respect. -
As the war broke out, farmers had not only just gotten back on their feet from the dreadful drought, but they were expected to produce so many more crops for all the troops serving overseas. With more to produce and with less hands available to tend to the farm, farmers had an incredibly tough time for the duration of this 6 year war. All across Canada farmers were given incredible standards for production that they could barley meet the quotas the government had set. -
This was a huge change, as the Farms went from little to no production at all, right back into war where there was more demand for produce than ever before. and with no extra hands to help tend to the farms, this quick change was drastic for the Farmers still able to tend their farms, and not send to serve overseas.
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This was a massive change, as women were once again allowed to have a mans job, and supply for their family. But the true change was in the military, as women were now allowed t fully conscript and serve, and still serve to this day.
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Once again, a great war overseas has called all working able bodied men to the war-front, and it is once again left to the women to manufacture weapons, military vehicles, also tend farms, and keep the economy afloat. but this time, come 1941, women were officially allowed to conscript into the military, not as soldiers on the front line, but in many supporting rolls, and many were sent overseas to help aid the troops on the front lines. To this day, women still serve in the Canadian military.
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This is a direct continuation and example of discrimination towards the first nations people, as the Canadian government had promised to return the land when it was no longer needed for the war. But in reality they kept the camp operational until the 80s, and did not officially return the land until much later.
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With the war still raging on the Canadian military needed more space to train soldiers to get them ready for their departure overseas. The Department of Nation Defense (DND) using the War Measures Act laid claim to the Ipperwash national park, with promises of returning the land to the first nations people when it was no longer needed for military service. But instead of returning the land after the war, the DND kept the training camp until 2007, when the land was returned to the first nations. -
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