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HOME FRONT The 2 world wars of the 20th century were total wars.

On the farms Women worked many farms in Canada

Mechanization Farmers broke new land and, with state assistance, began to mechanize their operations; the latter was one attempt to make up for the shortage of farm help caused by enlistment and by the drift of workers to cities in search of employment in the war industry

he shortage of consumer goods meant that workers, earning good wages for the first time after 10 years of the Great Depression he WPTB also devised major rationing schemes that distributed meat, butter, oil and gas, and other scarce goods. Inevitably there was black marketeering, but most people regarded it as a social crime.

The war was also omnipresent in the media. Radio, movie houses, newspapers, magazines featured constant news updates, and advertisements Canadian seaports and coastal airports, crucial for the shipment of North American supplies to the fighting fronts, played a key role in the war at sea Across the country many people too young or too old, or not physically qualified for active military service joined student cadet corps and reserve military units to carry out evening and weekend service. Most community groups and religious faiths performed volunteer work