The volunteers : how Halifax women won the Second World War / Lezlie Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Lezlie, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Women--Nova Scotia--Halifax.

World War, 1939-1945--War work--Nova Scotia--Halifax.

Women--Nova Scotia--Halifax--Social conditions--20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Nova Scotia--Halifax.

War work.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Nova Scotia--Halifax.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, [2022]

Summary:

"Halifax women won the Second World War--but not in the ways you might have been told. We all know the stories of Canadian women during the war who trained as machinists, welders, and streetcar drivers to fill the shoes of men who answered the call. We know how women kept the home fires lit while their husbands, brothers, and fathers fought. This is not that story. The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War is the untold story of Halifax women who geared up in a flash to focus on the comfort, community connections, and mental health of Halifax's exploding population of sailors, soldiers, airmen, and merchant mariners. They did a job no government could have organized or afforded. They did it without being asked. And they did it with no respite from their daily duties. Thoroughly researched and compellingly told, and with a dozen archival images, The Volunteers examines the untold stories of the hardworking women whose unpaid and unacknowledged labour won the Second World War."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lowe, Lezlie, 1972- Volunteers.

ISBN:

9781774710548

1774710544

OCLC:

1286373255

Publisher Number:

99990764321