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Girl Guides prepares young women for service
Canadian women were not allowed to fight during the Second World War but they did just about everything else. Tens of thousands joined the women's divisions of the Armed Forces. Hundreds of thousands stepped into jobs in wartime industry. At home and abroad they were welders and pilots, nurses and clerks, the homemakers that kept families together, protecting the home front and the Canadian way of life. These are some of their stories.
Program: CBC Radio Special
Broadcast Date: Oct. 31, 1942
Guest(s): Helen Burns, Winnifred Kidd, Grace Russell, Willow Walker
Duration: 11:55
Photo Credit: Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada Headquarters / Library and Archives Canada 1977-098 NPC
Last updated: March 14, 2013
Page consulted on April 15, 2013
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