Economic Effects of WWII on Canada Sophia Hays

Canada During WWII

Agriculture the agricultural sector was overtaken by the industrial and manufacturing sectors needed to supply Canadian and British troops created the Agricultural Supplies Board received a seat on the Allied Combined Food Board in 1943 supplied the British troops with 80% of their rations

Industry powerful industrialized country entered the international economy due to a huge increase in war supplies being produced shortage of labor as men went to war 815,000 military vehicles, 50,000 tanks, naval guns, and armoured gun carriers 11 billion dollars of munitions 1.7 million small arms 43,000 heavy guns 16,000 aircraft 2 million tons of explosives 9,000 boats and ships Anti-tank and field artillery Small arms and automatic weapons Radar sets and Electronics Synthetic rubber Uranium for the ’Manhattan Project’

Women Women’s Voluntary Services introduced a Block Plan to organize house-to-house canvassing wide range of national programs, distributing ration cards, recruiting and training volunteer staff in wartime day nurseries, promoting the sale of war bonds

Overall Effects people worried that the economic prosperity during the war was temporary a more tolerant society, a bigger population, a booming economy, more power, and a better government rising prosperity, fuelled partly by the needs of a rapidly growing population for homes, schools, hospitals, roads, and factories Canada’s exports grew Canada and the United States were the only two major industrialized countries whose infrastructures were substantially expanded during the war rather than devastated

Sources http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/canadawar/agriculture_e.shtml http://www.canadaatwar.ca/content-17/world-war-ii/canadian-war-industry/ http://www.google.com/search?q=canada+during+ww2&safe