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Ep. 32: Canned Goods & Can-Do Spirit


We've talked home canning before, and we've talked rationing and refashioning in WWII before -- now we're bringing it all together to talk about canned goods and factory fashion in 1940s Canada.

As we did the last time we talked about this period, we're switching up our roles -- Steph's taking fashion this month, looking at women's factory uniforms, and Torey's taking food, talking about industrial canning and how it changed the food landscape. 

What we're obsessed with in history

Torey: Reading old archived newsletters and basking in the knowledge that the effort she's spent to preserve minutiae may not have been wasted

Steph: Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini - a tough and relevant read.

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Check our facts

Fashion

Women Are Warriors, National Film Board of Canada, 1942.

Home Front, National Film Board of Canada, 1940. 

When mother was a war worker: A Macleans flashback, by Robert Collins, Macleans Magazine, 1959.

Women and War, Nancy Miller-Chenier, The Canadian Encyclopedia. 

Canada Remembers Women on the Home Front, Veterans Affairs Canada.

Riveting Rosies: Ephemera and Photographs of Canadian Women in the Second World WarToronto Public Library, Local History & Genealogy.

Defence Industries Limited Online Exhibit, Ajax Public Library Digital Archive.

Ontario in World War II: Women on the Home Front, Women's History.

Food

Ad for "Niblets Brand Mexicorn," 1945

Creamed, Canned and Frozen: How the Great Depression Revamped US Diets, NPR.org, 2016

Food on the Home Front during the Second World War, Wartime Canada.

Pearson, Gregg Steven, "The Democratization of Food: Tin Cans and the Growth of the American Food Processing Industry,
1810-1940" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 2756.


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