The War at Home Essay

Submitted By Stevenson-Pillow
Words: 1121
Pages: 5
Open Document
The War at Home
1. War Artists
Canadian War Art Program was a program in which hired Canadian artists created paintings depicting Canada’s contributions to the war and significant events
Canada did not have official war art program until 1943, which was organised by Vincent Massey and director of National Gallery of Canada, H. O. McCurry; it was under jurisdiction of the Department of National Defence
Only Canadians serving in the armed forces were employed
Only 32 artists given war artist commissions and paintings were exhibited during war
Artists would go with fighting groups, in uniform, to create sketches to be made into paintings later on
Paintings were focused on the men and machinery; Lawren P. Harris's “Tank Advance”, Charles F. Comfort’s “Dead German on the Hitler Line”, and Alex Colville’s “Tragic Landscape” all depicts the feelings and horrific results of war
Paintings and results of this program became known as the War Records Collection
Later transferred to Canadian War Museum in 1971

3. Rationing
Introduced in 1942; limiting what people could buy
Helped ensure that everyone shared the supplies available at home equally
Canadians households had to fill out application form for a ration book with coupons and had to present them in order to get what they needed
Could not buy more than amount indicated on coupon
Sugar was first to be rationed in July 1942, followed by tea and coffee in August
Other rationed foods includes: butter, meat, maple syrup products, table syrups, and apple or honey butter.
This was to ensure that there was enough food and supply for those fighting overseas
Was regulated by Wartime Prices and Trade Board; people were fined/imprisoned if caught with too much of anything
Rationing limited amount and type of food Canadians could purchase; lead to people saving up supplies/coupons for special occasions or exchanging it with neighbours

5. Women in the workforce and Canada’s industries (WWII)
Posters such as “Bren Gun Girl” encouraged women to seek jobs making munitions, tanks, ships, and other weapons; by 1943, 261 000 women worked in munition factories
Altogether, over 1 million women worked in jobs outside of home such jobs include: truck, bus, taxi, and streetcar driver – 4000 women had jobs as construction workers, others worked in shipyards and in smelters many more women worked at home or on farms, as well as volunteering with the Red Cross or in military canteens; also organised salvage drives or helped to prepare packages to send overseas over 21 000 women served in Canadian Army as WACs (Women’s Army Corps)
WWII saw end of drought in the West; many farmers devoted their efforts to bringing in record crops to feed Canadians (and its allies) at home and overseas, with the additional and excess production of wheat to meet the requirements of war
Majority of the food went overseas to feed the British; Canada sent over $3 billion to Britain to help its war efforts
All done in spite of shortage of labour; received temporary help from students, home defence soldiers, POWs, family, and groups of harvesters to ease shortage (not to mention lacking compulsory military service/conscription for farmers’ sons)

7. Services for military men at home
Canadian Red Cross provided services for men on leave (call military canteens)
Offered medical aid, comforts of home (food, warm clothing, books) to men
Pity and sadness would be felt towards men who had to go back to fight
Would be curious about the conditions and horrors seen on the battlefield
Might result in traumatic memories about said horrors

Paragraph – Women in the workforce and Canada’s industries (WWII) World War II saw many women working traditionally male roles such as jobs in munition factories, becoming heavy agricultural farmers, and physically joining the military. Since there was a labour shortage due to many Canadian men and women volunteering overseas to fight, the government of Canada resorted to propaganda to once again persuade
Show More

Related Documents: The War at Home Essay

War at Home Essay

this says the mentality of ‘us versus them’ is still securely set in the minds of some Americans. The fear that drove much of the discrimination towards Arab and Muslim Americans was also present in the treatment towards German Americans in World War 2. Everything with a German connection was either changed or removed. German American store owners had their shops vandalized and acts of violence towards German Americans, though not common, wan not unheard of. In one instance, a son of a German immigrant…

Words 432 - Pages 2

The War At The Home Front Essay

Explain the importance of the Home Front to the final outcome of the War. By Daniel Leeder. Although the Home Front was not as important as the land war in Europe and the war at sea, it was still relatively important to the final outcome of the war. Some of the most important points include, the fact that the British public was affected or involved in a major war for the first time, bombs dropped on London by Zeppelins and the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). Further points include the munitions…

Words 1214 - Pages 5

Civil War Letters From Home

Mail was a treasured link between Civil War camps and battlefields and “back home.” Recognizing its importance to morale, the armies assigned personnel to collect, distribute, and deliver soldiers’ mail; wagons and tents served as traveling Post Offices. Some soldiers wrote home weekly; some seemed to spend all their free time writing. A letter from home could be tucked into a pocket close to a soldier’s heart, to be read and re-read in moments of loneliness. Many soldiers carried letters in their…

Words 230 - Pages 1

world war 1 letter home Essay

Family, I am here, in the war. Writing to you all from these horrid Trenches. I have been fighting, trying to stay alive for these past six months. All I see everyday are people from both sides dying, thousands of lives being claimed. The living conditions in the trenches are absolutely disgusting. We have to sleep, eat, and basically live our lives among rats, lice, all types of bacteria, our own feces and especially hundreds of rotting dead bodies until the war ends, which I doubt will happen…

Words 311 - Pages 2

Summary Of James Mcpherson's What They Fought For

Jessica Miller Dr. Berryman English III 18 April 2024 History of War Letters James McPherson is an American historian who specialized in the Civil War. He was an individual that was involved with as much as he could be, such as being a professor. He was the president of the American Historical Association that protects historic America and the society of American historians (James M. McPherson Biography | AHA). In addition to that, he wrote What They Fought For, which is a nonfiction text written…

Words 1358 - Pages 6

Trench Warfare

The biggest war in the history of man left sons of liberty dead on its shores with a home front built strong but broken. On April 6th, 1917 The United States joined World War 1, also known as The Great War. Due to incidents that presided with allied powers the US had no choice but to join the war and draft men to join the military. With the German advance on the United States on the horizon, a declaration of war had to be made. The young men and old dogs who served in the war faced many oppositions…

Words 1418 - Pages 6

Essay 2 ENGL 2030

Vishal Patel ENGL-2030 Prof. Mackin 12/03/2013 How to tell a War Story vs. Soldier Home War can be expressed as a setting in which rival antagonists are involved in an operational battle. Different authors have over time written war stories and their outcomes on characters. Tim O’Brien wrote “How to tell a true war story” while Ernest Hemmingway wrote “Soldier’s Home”. Both stories clarify to readers the effects of war on an ordinary person. Both stories are matching in numerous features because…

Words 907 - Pages 4

Harold Krebs In Soldiers Home

“Soldier’s Home,” depicts the common and tragic affect of war on soldiers who have been involved with it. The protagonist in the story, Harold Krebs, face what many other soldiers have experienced after being at war many soldiers perhaps have come home from war physically, but mentally they are elsewhere. This is the concept in this story that Hemingway has presented. Harold Krebs comes back to a seemingly solid home in which he does not feel comfortable and content in living with after war times…

Words 702 - Pages 3

Great War Dbq

The Great War more commonly known as World War I started on July 28 1914 to November 1918. One of the major events that led to the civil war was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand the archduke of Austria -Hungary. His Assassin was Gavrilo Princip a Serbian nationalist that took the chance to perform the murder. This spark a fire into the alliances of which side being involved and starting World War I. These Alliances were known as the central powers and the allied powers. The central’s powers made…

Words 1831 - Pages 8

Soldiers Home Essay

Professor Tatum ENWR 106 10 February 2015 Soldier’s Home: Krebs Detached World after War America has the freedom it does because of determined soldiers who sacrificed their lives at war to protect the land of the free. Ernest Hemingway takes the opportunity to write a short story about a young war veteran returning home. Hemingway begins "Soldier's Home," by introducing us to Harold Krebs, a young war veteran who just recently returned home. Before Krebs enlisted in the marines, he attended college…

Words 1193 - Pages 5