Peggy Lee actively served on the home front before her flourishing career as a businesswoman and community activist. She came to Vancouver and joined St. John's Ambulance Corps in about 1939. She was the youngest person in the Women's Ambulance Corps. Peggy Lee was born in Canada. Her father came from Canton province in the early 1900s or late 1800s to lay the railroad. Back in that time, many Chinese came to Canada to build the railway. But then because of the railroad ending in Prince Rupert, so her family lived there and her father started a store. She was born there and went to the same school as Japanese. At that time, Japan wanted to take over China, they were fighting against each other. One of her Japanese classmates stated that Japan just wanted to be China’s big brother, but Peggy dissented from him. She thought it was ridiculous that such a small island intended taking over for the sake of amicable …show more content…
When the war started, she and other women entertained the soldiers with Chinese songs, but she only could barely follow it. She came to Vancouver afterwards in 1939 or 40 and because of the suggestion of Dr. Chu’s sister, she pleasurably joined the St. John’s Ambulance Corps. She wanted to do what she can do for the war. She knew so much so that she could march in case there was a blackout. In St. John’s, she learned first aid, how to put out a fire and SOS as well and got all the certificates. Women’s Ambulance Corps was composed of all Chinese women, so they were very unique and unite and they were also the first Chinese platoon. In fact, Woman’s Ambulance Corps were being prepared just in case Canada was being invaded and they could do everything if there’s a war. After that, she got to work in the canteen and learned to wash dishes, make soda and dance with the soldiers. Even though she served in home front, she thought it was kind of enjoyable, but she definitely didn’t like the
Margaret (Peggy) O’Neal (who preffered to be called Margaret) was born in 1799 in Washington DC. She was the daughter of William O’Neal, who owned a thriving boarding house and tavern called the Franklin House in that same town. It was frequented by senators, congressmen, and all politicians. She was the oldest of six children, growing up in the midst of our nation’s emerging political scene. She was always a favorite of the visitors to the Franklin House. She was sent to one of the best schools in Washington DC, where she studied English and French grammar, needlework and music. She also had quite a talent for dance, and was sent to private lessons, becoming a very good dancer. At the age of twelve, she danced for the First Lady Dolley Madison. Visitors of the Franklin House also commented on her piano playing skills.
Born in 1894, Hee Kyung Lee grew up in Taegu, Korea. Although the details of her early life are not given, the reader can assume that she came from a decent middle class family because her parents had servants (Pai 2, 10). In the early 1900’s, Japan exercised immense control over Korea, which by 1910 was completely annexed. Her twenty-year-old sister and eighteen-year-old Lee were introduced to the picture bride system, an opportunity to escape the Japanese oppression (Pai 4). Unlike her older sister, Lee made the decision to immigrate to Hawaii in 1912 as a pictu...
Instead, she copped out on her obligations, meekly reinforcing every conceivable stereotype. & nbsp; if you believe tan's first novel "the joy luck club," asian amerca is some mystical oddity, conforming to the mascot-culture view of the white thirtysomething women who predominated tan's reading. san francisco chinatown is filled with hysterical chinese women playing secret mah jong games. China itself is a dreamlike landscape, filled with secrets and traditions, all exuding a delicate, storybook aura. Chinese mothers are all one-dimensional, superstitious and ignorant. their Chinese phrases are delightful italics with quaint meanings.
1940: During this time many women united to create different sectors that would allow them to be of assistance in the war effort by offering vital services etc. The Woman’s Transport Corps was created. In this corps women were given the opportunity to learn how to drive: Lorries, ambulances,...
After teaching for 15 year, she became active in temperance. However, because she was a women she was not allowed to speak at rallies. Soon after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became very active in the women’s right movement in 1852 and dedicated her life to woman suffrage.
Firstly, women played key supportive roles in the army, even though they were not necessarily foot soldiers; they still contributed greatly to the allied victory in World War Two. When Canada finally decided to allow women to participate in the war, many did not hesitate and was willing to sacrifice their life to protect their country. There were a total of 16221 women enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), 20497 in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC), 6665 in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS), and later on in the war about 4439 women entered the nursing servic...
Subsequently, women volunteered through national or local associations or by getting permission from a commanding officer (“Nursing”). In April 1861, Dorothea Dix assembled a collection of volunteer female nurses which staged a march on Washington, demanding that the government distinguish their desire to assist the Union’s wounded soldiers. She organized military hospitals for the care of all sick and wounded soldiers, aiding the head surgeons by supplying nurses and considerable means for the ease and aid of the suffering. After she recruited nurses; nursing was greatly improved and her nurses were taken care of under her supervision (Buhler-Wilkerson). During the Civil war, most nurses were women who took care of the ill and injured soldiers. Both male and female nurses have cared for the soldiers in every American war. The majority of nurses were recruited soldiers pressed into duty. Civil war nurses worked in hospitals, on the battlefield, and in their homes (Post). The first carnage of the war made it possible for nursing to become a professional occupation. The women who proved themselves as capable volunteers established nursing as an acceptable field of employment for women after the war. The contributions of the thousands of female nurses helped to alter the image of the professional nurse and changed American nursing from a male-dominated to a largely female profession (Woodworth). Clara Barton, one of the nurses who contributed to the Civil War, founded the American Red Cross, brought supplies and helped the battlefronts before formal relief organizations could take shape to administer such shipments (Buhler-Wilkerson). The religious orders given responded to the new opportunity for servicing the injured by sending t...
She helped with getting the supplies the army needed by receiving donations and giving away her own money. Barton tended to the wounded soldiers out of a tent, and she handed out fresh foods to prevent further sicknesses. She soon became the founder of the American Red Cross. Dorothea Dix was another woman who took part as a nurse during the Civil War. Being dismissed on her request to help out in the U.S Army, Dix decided to rent out a home in Washington as a place for receiving hospital supplies.
...and the responsibility to be just as patriotic and dedicated as any other. When the war ended and the men returned, women weren’t required for the occupations, and this stirred a yearning in women to be once again sovereign, and perhaps the time set a scene for a path to complete gender integration and a women’s rights movement.
My interviewee went through a lot during World War II and sharing her amazing story left me evaluating her words for a long time, rethinking and still not willing to imagine the pain. She was one of the 150,000 American woman served in the Women’s Army Corps during the war years. They were one of the first ones to serve in the ranks of the United States Army. She recalls being teased a lot about being a young woman in a uniform but was very proud of it. Women finally were given the opportunity to make a major contribution to the national affair, especially a world war. It started with a meeting in1941 of Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers and General George Marshall, who was the Army’s Chief of Staff. Rogers asked General to introduce a bill to establish an Army women’s corps, where my interviewee, Elizabeth Plancher, was really hoping to get the benefits after the World War II along with other women. ( Since after World War I women came back from war and were not entitled to protection or any medical benefits. )
„h Nellie Letitia Mooney Mclung(1872-1951) was an activist and a campaigner for female suffrage. She was a nationally known feminist and social reformer. Mclung was the first woman member of CBC¡¦s Board of Governor¡¦s and deserves great thanks from Canadian women for her contributions to the women¡¦s movement in Canada.
"From Home Front to Front Line." Women in War. Ed. Cecilia Lee and Paul Edward Strong. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. The Churchill Centre. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
Most women in Canada before World War One (WWI) were treated poorly compared to the men. Women were dehumanized and were not looked as any worth or value. During WW1 women’s roles in Canada changes to a great extent. The war influence change in the work force and politics. Women had to take on jobs of the men who went to war to keep the established economic system running. In 1911 before the war 16.6% of the female population of 2,521,000 participated in the labour force. During the war in 1921 the participation rate increased from 418,486 female workers to 563,578. War changed their roles greatly as before women were housewives, they would raise the children and do household chores. Now during the war they were needed as men went overseas
As explained on the website of Sanger’s life, Margaret was born and raised in Corning, New York. She was the one of eleven children. Sanger’s mother died at a young age due to the cause of tuberculosis. Margaret attended school Claverack College in Hudson, New York, and then went to study nursing at the White Plains Hospital. Margaret left school to take care of her mother, which she suffered from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a disease that affected the lungs. Sangers mother later passed away from this. In 1912, she worked in New York City as a nurse for immigrants. She was scarred by the number of immigrants she saved while in the hospital. While there she saw venereal diseases and mishandled abortions. As Sanger spent her days in the hospital she saw many different diseases, one case really caught her attention. Her patient was not given birth control from her doctor, then died from an illegal abortion. Sanger then said she would commit to educating women on birth control. She then married William Sanger they had a child t...
Women helped a lot in the war effort in the First World War and this