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Resources and Education Material

Ontario Women's Land Army Resources

The Canadian War Museum:
Farming and Food in the First World War

www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/the-war-economy/farming-and-food/
I
nge Oswald's Personal Story 
​www.warmuseum.ca/s3/supplyline/assets/swwteacherresources/personalstories/T5.3.1-PS-Eng-Oswald.pdf

The Lambton Heritage Museum:
​"The Farmerettes" Virtual Exhibit 
www.lambtonmuseums.ca/en/lambton-heritage-museum/the-farmerettes.aspx

Wartime Canada
Ontario Farm Service Force Song Book PDF
wartimecanada.ca/sites/default/files/documents/Let%20Us%20Sing.pdf
Ontario Farm Service Force Pamphlet PDF
wartimecanada.ca/document/second-world-war/agriculture/helping-out-farm
Articles:
"Remembering Ontario Farmerettes" Good In Every Grain, November 2, 2021
 goodineverygrain.ca/2021/11/02/remembering-ontario-farmerettes/
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"Ontario's Farmerettes: The Incredible Story of Canada's Forgotten Wartime Heroes" Reader's Digest
www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/farmerettes-forgotten-heroes/
"Remembering Ontario's Farmerettes: Women Reminisce about their Work during Second World War" CTV News Kitchener,  April 15, 2023.
​kitchener.ctvnews.ca/remembering-ontario-s-farmerettes-women-reminisce-about-their-work-during-second-world-war-1.6357338
​"
The Best Summer of our Lives: New Book Captures the Stories of Ontario Farmerettes" CBC News London, September 9, 2019. 
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/farmerettes-ontario-wwii-book-1.5275476
Books:
​YA Fiction Novel: The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman 
     Order Here: secondstorypress.ca/teen/the-farmerettes
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Non-Fiction Hardcover Compilation of Stories: Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: Memories of Ontario Farmerettes by Shirleyan English and Bonnie Sitter
​     Order Here: bonniesitterphotography.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/just-released-our-new-book/
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British Columbia Women's Land Army Resources

Okanagan Heritage Museum
Browse their archival collections and check back for future exhibits on the WLA in BC.
www.kelownamuseums.ca/museum/okanagan-heritage-museum/

Articles
"U of R Researcher Hoping to Collect more stories from Members of Women's Land Army" CBC Saskatchewan Morning Edition, June 29, 2023. 
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-66/clip/15994487
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