1. Economic Effects of WWII on Canada
Sophia Hays

2. Canada During WWII

3. 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

4. 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’

5. 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

6. 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

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