Insights and Stories on Farm Women

Women who fed a nation

Nov. 10, 2025 at 6:28 pm CST

More than 40,000 young women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.

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