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Canadians in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
• Hong Kong was a British colony until 1997• Canada sent 1975 men to Hong Kong in
1940• First time Canadians combat in WW2,
before Dieppe.• 557 were killed or died in prison camps.
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Canadian Women during WWII
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The Home Front
• Just like in WWI • Over 1 million Canadian women went to
work• Canada’s population was 11 million • Over 25,000 women worked in Canadian
wartime aircraft production.
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Rosies of the North - Documentary
• One Example is a factory in Thunder Bay, Ontario where about 3,000 women went to work during the war building planes.
• These women came from all across Canada and would live in dorms built to house the workers.
• Some of these women were only 15.
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After the War
• Out of the thousands of women working at the factory in Thunder Bay only three were kept on as employees after the war.
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• An obstacle to enlistment from 1939 until 1943 was the regulation which prohibited marriage during any woman's military service
• Women were not allowed be in combat.
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Nurses in the War
• Number of women in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps that served in the war- • 3,656
• 300 women resigned from the war because of marriage.
• Nurses in the war were called Nursing Sisters
• Total 4,480
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Canadian Women’s Army Corps• (C.W.A.C.) was created in 1941 it was the
result of two factors: the realization that the Army would sooner or later need more workers; and the pressure exerted on the federal government by Canadian women, who were eager to join the Armed Forces.
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Women in the Army
• The Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACS) had 21,600 members during the six-years of the war. 25 died.
• The Women's Division, Royal Canadian Air Force (WDs) had 17,400 members.
• The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (Wrens) had 7,100 members.
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Navy • The last part of the army to accept women was the
Navy according to a former recruiting officer they would ask women:
• What schools they had attended• How many cars their father had
• They also looked at:• How shinny your hair was• Bright Eyes• Good finger nails
Remember it was a different time!
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What happened to the C.W.A.C.
• Was dissolved into the Military in 1964.