The long-awaited narrative history of the Women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go.
Thoroughly researched and compellingly told, and with a dozen archival images, The Volunteers examines the untold stories of the hardworking Women whose unpaid and unacknowledged labour won the Second World War..
And they did it with no respite from their daily duties.
They did it without being asked.
They did a job no government could have organized or afforded.
The Volunteers: How Halifax Women Won the Second World War is the untold story of Halifax Women who geared up in a flash to focus on the comfort, community connections, and mental health of Halifax\'s exploding population of sailors, soldiers, airmen, and merchant mariners.
We know how Women kept the home fires lit while their husbands, brothers, and fathers fought.
This is not that story.
We all know the stories of Canadian Women during the war who trained as machinists, welders, and streetcar drivers to fill the shoes of men who answered the call.
Halifax Women won the Second World War -- but not in the ways you might have been told.
I was home cooking carrots because my mother was off winning the war.-- Patricia Timbrell, whose mother, Amy Jones, along with her friend Una Smith, established and ran the Central Magazine Exchange, which distributed four million used magazines and 30,000 packs of cards by June 1942 alone for troop and merchant ships in Halifax Harbour.
The long-awaited narrative history of the Women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go
