Peggy Lee actively served on the home front before her flourishing career as a businesswoman and community activist. She came to Vancouver and joined St. John's Ambulance Corps in about 1939. She was the youngest person in the Women's Ambulance Corps. Peggy Lee was born in Canada. Her father came from Canton province in the early 1900s or late 1800s to lay the railroad. Back in that time, many Chinese came to Canada to build the railway. But then because of the railroad ending in Prince Rupert, so her family lived there and her father started a store. She was born there and went to the same school as Japanese. At that time, Japan wanted to take over China, they were fighting against each other. One of her Japanese classmates stated that Japan just wanted to be China’s big brother, but Peggy dissented from him. She thought it was ridiculous that such a small island intended taking over for the sake of amicable …show more content…
When the war started, she and other women entertained the soldiers with Chinese songs, but she only could barely follow it. She came to Vancouver afterwards in 1939 or 40 and because of the suggestion of Dr. Chu’s sister, she pleasurably joined the St. John’s Ambulance Corps. She wanted to do what she can do for the war. She knew so much so that she could march in case there was a blackout. In St. John’s, she learned first aid, how to put out a fire and SOS as well and got all the certificates. Women’s Ambulance Corps was composed of all Chinese women, so they were very unique and unite and they were also the first Chinese platoon. In fact, Woman’s Ambulance Corps were being prepared just in case Canada was being invaded and they could do everything if there’s a war. After that, she got to work in the canteen and learned to wash dishes, make soda and dance with the soldiers. Even though she served in home front, she thought it was kind of enjoyable, but she definitely didn’t like the
How did the women’s organisations that were developed at The Home Front, contribute to the war effort?
Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948 and grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when she was sent to the countryside to be “Re-educated” by the Maoist regime. She immigrated to the US in 1984 to
Margaret (Peggy) O’Neal (who preffered to be called Margaret) was born in 1799 in Washington DC. She was the daughter of William O’Neal, who owned a thriving boarding house and tavern called the Franklin House in that same town. It was frequented by senators, congressmen, and all politicians. She was the oldest of six children, growing up in the midst of our nation’s emerging political scene. She was always a favorite of the visitors to the Franklin House. She was sent to one of the best schools in Washington DC, where she studied English and French grammar, needlework and music. She also had quite a talent for dance, and was sent to private lessons, becoming a very good dancer. At the age of twelve, she danced for the First Lady Dolley Madison. Visitors of the Franklin House also commented on her piano playing skills.
Born in 1894, Hee Kyung Lee grew up in Taegu, Korea. Although the details of her early life are not given, the reader can assume that she came from a decent middle class family because her parents had servants (Pai 2, 10). In the early 1900’s, Japan exercised immense control over Korea, which by 1910 was completely annexed. Her twenty-year-old sister and eighteen-year-old Lee were introduced to the picture bride system, an opportunity to escape the Japanese oppression (Pai 4). Unlike her older sister, Lee made the decision to immigrate to Hawaii in 1912 as a pictu...
Most women in Canada before World War One (WWI) were treated poorly compared to the men. Women were dehumanized and were not looked as any worth or value. During WW1 women’s roles in Canada changes to a great extent. The war influence change in the work force and politics. Women had to take on jobs of the men who went to war to keep the established economic system running. In 1911 before the war 16.6% of the female population of 2,521,000 participated in the labour force. During the war in 1921 the participation rate increased from 418,486 female workers to 563,578. War changed their roles greatly as before women were housewives, they would raise the children and do household chores. Now during the war they were needed as men went overseas
After teaching for 15 year, she became active in temperance. However, because she was a women she was not allowed to speak at rallies. Soon after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became very active in the women’s right movement in 1852 and dedicated her life to woman suffrage.
...he was not on the home front, she was a WAC officer. Never before this time had women been given the chance to help defend this country as much as during WWII, non the less a black woman. It was a major break through. The help that Fraser provided towards the war cause enabled her to achieve the GI Bill. She used it in her full advantage (128). “I used part of the GI Bill to go to Northwestern and then full time to Roosevelt U. (128).”
She helped with getting the supplies the army needed by receiving donations and giving away her own money. Barton tended to the wounded soldiers out of a tent, and she handed out fresh foods to prevent further sicknesses. She soon became the founder of the American Red Cross. Dorothea Dix was another woman who took part as a nurse during the Civil War. Being dismissed on her request to help out in the U.S Army, Dix decided to rent out a home in Washington as a place for receiving hospital supplies.
„h Nellie Letitia Mooney Mclung(1872-1951) was an activist and a campaigner for female suffrage. She was a nationally known feminist and social reformer. Mclung was the first woman member of CBC¡¦s Board of Governor¡¦s and deserves great thanks from Canadian women for her contributions to the women¡¦s movement in Canada.
"From Home Front to Front Line." Women in War. Ed. Cecilia Lee and Paul Edward Strong. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. The Churchill Centre. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
Women helped a lot in the war effort in the First World War and this
Subsequently, women volunteered through national or local associations or by getting permission from a commanding officer (“Nursing”). In April 1861, Dorothea Dix assembled a collection of volunteer female nurses which staged a march on Washington, demanding that the government distinguish their desire to assist the Union’s wounded soldiers. She organized military hospitals for the care of all sick and wounded soldiers, aiding the head surgeons by supplying nurses and considerable means for the ease and aid of the suffering. After she recruited nurses; nursing was greatly improved and her nurses were taken care of under her supervision (Buhler-Wilkerson). During the Civil war, most nurses were women who took care of the ill and injured soldiers. Both male and female nurses have cared for the soldiers in every American war. The majority of nurses were recruited soldiers pressed into duty. Civil war nurses worked in hospitals, on the battlefield, and in their homes (Post). The first carnage of the war made it possible for nursing to become a professional occupation. The women who proved themselves as capable volunteers established nursing as an acceptable field of employment for women after the war. The contributions of the thousands of female nurses helped to alter the image of the professional nurse and changed American nursing from a male-dominated to a largely female profession (Woodworth). Clara Barton, one of the nurses who contributed to the Civil War, founded the American Red Cross, brought supplies and helped the battlefronts before formal relief organizations could take shape to administer such shipments (Buhler-Wilkerson). The religious orders given responded to the new opportunity for servicing the injured by sending t...
The history of nursing important to understand because it can help our professionals today to know why things are the way it is now and can have solutions to unsolvable problems from history. Captain Mary Lee Mills was an African-American woman born in Wallace, North Carolina in August 1912. She was a role model, an international nursing leader, and a humanitarian in her time. She joined many nursing associations, she participated in public health conferences, gained recognition and won numerous awards for her notable contributions to public health nursing. Her contributions throughout her lifetime made a huge impact on the world today and has changed the lives of how people live because of her passion for public health nursing.
When the Civil War broke out, Barton chose to resign from her position in the US Patent Office. She started working on the battlefield as a volunteer. At first her basic job was to distribute bandages and war supplies to the wounded soldiers. Barton took her job to another extreme.
As explained on the website of Sanger’s life, Margaret was born and raised in Corning, New York. She was the one of eleven children. Sanger’s mother died at a young age due to the cause of tuberculosis. Margaret attended school Claverack College in Hudson, New York, and then went to study nursing at the White Plains Hospital. Margaret left school to take care of her mother, which she suffered from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a disease that affected the lungs. Sangers mother later passed away from this. In 1912, she worked in New York City as a nurse for immigrants. She was scarred by the number of immigrants she saved while in the hospital. While there she saw venereal diseases and mishandled abortions. As Sanger spent her days in the hospital she saw many different diseases, one case really caught her attention. Her patient was not given birth control from her doctor, then died from an illegal abortion. Sanger then said she would commit to educating women on birth control. She then married William Sanger they had a child t...