Recruitment

“Students… plan now to spend your vacation on a farm!”

The Ontario Farm Service Force ran a recruitment program. It was advertised in newspapers and on posters. The Department of Education was very supportive. Many workers were recruited through field staff visits and announcements made over P.A. systems.

There were also incentives. If your grades were good enough in all your classes and you signed up for 13 weeks of work, you could finish school early. You got to skip exams while still getting your credits.

Girls from across Ontario signed up. They came from as far north as Sioux Lookout and from both big cities and small towns. Farmerette Joyce McKinnon recalled that British war guests and French Canadians signed up. While some girls commuted from the city and neighboring farms daily, many traveled by train and ferry to live in large camps and on farms. This was the farthest some had ever been from home.

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