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Title: Fighting from the Home Front - Second World War- The Crucible
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis of television episode about the social and economic effects that the Second World War had on Canada. Discusses the War Measures Act invoked by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1939. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Second World War: Women after the war
 
Type: Sound
Description: In this 1945 broadcast of the radio program "Servicemen's Forum," the position of women in Canada's postwar society is discussed. Talk turns to education for women, full employment, wage equity, and the possibility of introducing a family allowance.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Queen of the Hurricanes - Elsie MacGill - Second World War- Fighting f...
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis on television episode focusing on Elsie MacGill, one of Canada's top aeronautical engineers during the Second World War, who was in charge of designing machines that would produce Hawker Hurricane airplanes. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Japanese Canadians: Starting over in Ontario
 
Type: Sound
Description: Muriel Kitagawa and Hide Shimizu recount their personal experiences in the years of resettlement during the Second World War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: 1988: Government apologizes to Japanese Canadians
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: A formal apology and financial compensation package is passed into law for the Japanese-Canadian community, to redress their internment and relocation during the Second World War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Japanese Canadians: The case against the 'enemy aliens'
 
Type: Sound
Description: In this 1944 radio broadcast, Dr. John Ewing proposes repatriation of Japanese Canadians. He argues that they cannot be assimilated into Canadian culture, and thus must be deported to Japan.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Conscription Crisis - Turmoil on the Homefront - First World War
 
Type: Document Film and Video
Description: French Canada erupts in anger when the federal government forces its men to go to war, thus ripping open the country's linguistic divide. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Cold War: Atomic Guinea Pigs: Nuclear Tragedy
 
Type: Sound
Description: CBC report on civilian victims of government nuclear war emergency preparedness exercises conducted during the Cold War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Japanese Canadian: The Fifth Column?
 
Type: Sound
Description: Canadians debate for and against the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Relocation to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadians
 
Type: Document Film and Video Sound
Description: During the Second World War, roughly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly evacuated from the west coast and resettled in other parts of the country. Their struggle for redress and apologies continued after the war.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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