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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: vacation for victory
    sub title: an illustrated history of the Women's Land Army in Canada
  name:
    name part: Lonie, Kelsey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Illustrated works.
  genre: Ouvrages illustrés.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 283 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
  abstract: "Serving not in uniforms or factories but in orchards, fields, and farms, the women and girls of Canada's Women's Land Army - the youngest of whom were known as "farmerettes" - planted, picked, and packed food that sustained the nation while men fought overseas. A Vacation for Victory brings this fascinating Second World War history to life. Blending creative nonfiction with archival letters, newspaper clippings, interviews, and her own grandmother's recollections, Kelsey Lonie portrays the working lives of women who formed Canada's farm front. Their stories and photographs reveal how they understood both their labour and their changing place in society. Unlike other Allied countries, Canada did not create a national land army; instead, provinces took the lead. Ontario recruited thousands of women, while British Columbia's program faltered until prairie women, eager for new experiences elsewhere, signed up. Patriotic duty, however, is only part of Lonie's narrative: wealthy landowners expanded orchards, leaving the hardest, dirtiest jobs to marginalized workers, thus exposing how racism and capitalism shaped wartime farming industries. Richly illustrated with photographs, postcards, and cultural ephemera, A Vacation for Victory offers powerful accounts of grit, inequity, and resilience, restoring women to the centre of Canada's wartime effort."--
  note: Kelsey M. Lonie.
  note: Issued also in electronic formats.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Women's Land Army (Canada)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Women
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Food supply
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural laborers
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Women farmers
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Food supply
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
    topic: Femmes
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
    topic: Alimentation
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Travailleurs agricoles
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Agricultrices
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Aliments
    topic: Approvisionnement
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  classification: D810.W7 L66 2026
  classification: 940.53082/0971
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Vacation for victory
    name:
      name part: Lonie, Kelsey.
    origin info:
      publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2026
    identifier: (OCoLC)1560008957
  identifier: 9780228027614
  identifier: 0228027616
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 251102
    record change date: 20260712032509.9
    record identifier: in00005787562
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng