The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established in June 1939 with Miss Jane Trefusis-Forbes (1899-1971) as its first Director. In World War I she had been one of the first group of women to wear khaki; joining the Women's Volunteer Reserve, formed in 1914 to set more men fr...
doi:10.7202/030808arPierson, RuthHistorical papers / the Canadian Historical Association = Communications historiques / la Société historique du Canada. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting
When the winds of war blew for a second time the women of Britain answered the call. Many of the first to volunteer had served in the First World War and now they offered their services again, bringing their daughters with them. During the Second World War women proved themselves indispensab...
YWCA World Conference (Canada, 1938), 17. See also Pan-Pacific Women's Confer ence (PPWC) Confucianism, 11–12, 14–15 Conservatism, 38, 46, 69–70; in Japanese middle- and upper-class women, 107; in Japanese society, 87–88, 92 Cooperation with government in wartime: in Britain, 80...
2. Ibid. 3. About state legislation and censorship associated with pornography, see, among others, the special issue on censorship in the aforementioned journalPorn Studies, Vol. 1, no. 3, (2014). Canada’s distinctive genealogy of feminist porn discourse is now the subject of archival researc...
Women in the First and Second World Wars: A Checklist of the Holdings of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Helena Wedborn, comp. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1988. Google Scholar Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union ...
Two children orphaned overnight are sent to live with their French Aunt in Winnipeg, Canada. When they get to 17 years old, they plan an escape, and their world gets turned upside down again. The only blood uncle we had left in Santa Cruz, Papa’s brother, said that children were alwa...
Canada and the Pacific cable controversy, 1923-28: Forgotten source of imperial alienation In terms of international policies, the Lyons and Menzies Governments of 1931-41 have had a bad press for generations. They have been accused of failing to rearm in time for the Second World War, sending...
Canada takes up about two-fifths of the North American continent, making it the second-largest country in the world after Russia. The country is sparsely populated, with most of its 35.5 million residents living within 125 miles of the U.S. border. Canada’s expansive wilderness to the north...
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