How Did Homelife Affect Canada's Death

The Effect on Homelife During the Second World War

The Second World War was a battle that affected many lives, since it was such a widespread war. Allies of Britain from all over the world, would lend a hand to fight against Germany, one of them including Canada. Canada made a huge impact in the war, on and off the battlefield. Once the war started, the whole country was ready to help out as much as possible to ensure that Britain would be victorious. The war obviously changed the lives of the soldiers on the warfront, but it also influenced Canadians who were still on their homeland, thousands of kilometers away from the fight. Whether it was through occupations that involved building supplies for the war effort, rationing non-essential goods

First, the way people made a living change greatly during the war, the economy increased, Canadians started to live a less stressful lifestyle, and women started finding independence. For starters, The increase in jobs help boost the Canadian economy and get the country out of the Great Depression. Since there was no available space for production in Britain, Canada ended up not only, “supplying their own forces, 70 percent of Canada's output went to supplying other allied forces,” (Colyer, Cecillon, Draper, and Hoogeveen 258) which allowed job opportunities for millions in various factories creating munitions and other products for the war. Unemployment was at an all-time low in Canada, at about three percent, due to the large increase of job availability (Gower 1). The large influx of occupations allowed every Canadian to have a job and earn money. This allowed consumers to earn enough money to buy products again, which restored the economy to it’s original state and make the country wealthy, which got Canada out of the large economic drop in the Great Depression. Secondly, People are now far less stressed out about their survival and well-being due to having a job. Since there was such a huge

Many children were incapable of experiencing the average life of an adolescent, due to living it in the war-time era. Lots of children decided to stop going to school in order to support the war effort. Ron Snell, a child during the war explained, “if you got a job with planting on a relative's farm in June, you were excused from writing your final exams- nobody wrote and exam that year,” (Santer 31) which is one of the many examples students would use in order to get out of class, or even do in their free time. Since most children started working at such a young age, they no longer had space in their schedule to live an average child's life. Youth ceased to play, study, or hang out with friends in order to help the men and women overseas. Along with lack of free time, children were losing their time with family members, destroying relationships with close relatives. When children were not at school or working, they volunteered their time into joining various clubs that would support the war effort, such as: “The Little Happy Gang, the children's knitting club of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan- contributed to the comfort of soldiers,” (Santer 30) or “the scouts in Peterborough, Ontario were featured in a publicity