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Royal Canadia Air Force Women's Division (WD) recruiting poster. Title: She serves that men may fly : Enlist today in the R.C.A.F.

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

Careful! You Can't Tell Who Has It!

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…

Dance at the opening of the Women’s Division Lounge, R.C.A.F. Station Gander, Newfoundland, 3 March 1945.

An unidentified member of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (C.W.A.C.), England, 19 July 1944.

Nursing personnel of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) administering physiotherapy treatment, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 1945.

Leading Wren Ruth Church, Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) delivering a supply of library books to Able Seaman Bill Swetman of H.M.C.S. PETROLIA, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, November 1944.

Leading Wren June Whiting, Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S,), disembarking at Liverpool, England, April 1945.

Personnel of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) sorting mail at the Fleet Mail Office, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 3 March 1943.
(L-R): Wrens F.A. Padgett, R.K. Dwyer and M.S. Macdonald.