My MIL was 14 when WW2 started and she worked as a Farmerette in southern Ontario. Farmerettes worked in agriculture to replace male workers who were in the armed forces. She just turned 97 and is moving from her condo to a retirement home next week.
The farmerettes - young women who worked on farms across Ontario during WWII - have been largely forgotten, but a new book tells their story.
www.readersdigest.ca
Her father was in the Army and served on the front in Europe during WW1. He was a medic and one can only image the horrors he saw dealing with the wounded.
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