1. War on the Home Front

2. Major Issues
Camp X
Total War
Economy
Role of Women
Conscription

3. Camp X intelligence training school very secret
graduates head to Nazis-occupied Europe

4. British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP)
train pilots, navigators, gunners, paratroopers
bases all over Canada
students come from all over Commonwealth

5. Total War By 1942, Canada was committed to a policy of “Total War.”
All industries, materials, and people were put to work for the war effort.

6. Economy war decreases unemployment everything focused on war
Victory Bonds: loans to the government by the public to support war

7. Economy gov’t controls raising of prices
wage controls control inflation
cost of living ~ wages
rationing: limit of what people could buy
Canadians given ration books and coupons

8. Women & War women fill labour shortage
new ways of thinking about women
industry/factories
sew clothes
work at hospitals, drive buses, etc.

9. Conscription, 1943 low volunteer rates by 1943
King holds plebiscite (direct vote): voters asked ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question on Conscription
English support it; French do not
riots in Montreal and Quebec
introduced at the end of the war
never sent overseas

10. CASE STUDY Groups of three (3)
In your group, read the small biography of the person and decide whether they would be ‘for’ or ‘against’ conscription.
Why?

11. Key Question
Should everyone be compelled to support the war effort?