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Recruiting poster for military service

Four ensembles, the Originals, the London Life Troupers, the Tweedsmuir Revue, and the London Little Theatre, performed to entertain men and women in uniform and raise funds for the Citizens Auxiliary War Services Committee.

By 1943, the growing size of the armed forces threatened to deplete human resources in essential industries such as agriculture and industry, leading to vigorous recruitment drives in each sector. Equating female agricultural workers and riveters…

This modest pamphlet, published in Saint John, New Brunswick, was one of many that combined advertising with tips for women on how to cope with wartime shortages.

Careful You Can’t Tell Who Has It!: sensitivity campaign against venereal disease.

Careful! You Can't Tell Who Has It!

Come on Housewives Sock Him Again! Scrap Metal Campaign Advertisement

CWAC Member Throwing Snowballs in Star Weekly

Everything was militarized during the Second World War, including the household economy. Women became "housoldiers" whose job was to prepare "appetizing and nourishing meals that protect and preserve the health of their families."

Enlist today in the RCAF: "That men may fly"