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Petition for a Canada Post Stamp

6/21/2023

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In 2021, a group of Farmerettes and supporters reached out to Canada Post about designing a postage stamp series in memory of the girls who participated in Canada's Women's Land Army during the Second World War. Letters were written to Members of Parliament, and even to the Prime Minister, asking for their support in this initiative.  
97 year old, Denise Powel, who worked as a farmerette from 1941-1944 wrote to the Stamp Advisory Committee about what seeing a stamp in memory of the Women's Land Army would mean to her:
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So far, we have received a positive response, and are hopeful that Canada Post will design and issue a stamp to recognize the Farmerettes for their Service in Ontario and British Columbia from 1941-1952 in food production.  
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    Kelsey Lonie is a Canadian Historian with the University of Regina who focuses on the Women's Land Army in Canada and the contribution of women on the Homefront during the Second World War.

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