Monday Monuments and Memorials – Apple Picking and Land Girls Hoeing, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa

Farm Service Corps farmerettes hoeing the fields

Farm Service Corps farmerettes sorting apples

In 1918, the Canadian War Memorials Fund commissioned paintings and sculptures depicting women’s work on the home front as part of its project to document Canada’s participation in the war. Manly Edward MacDonald painted scenes of women working in the fields, including Apple Picking and Land Girls Hoeing. They are now part of the Beaverbrook Collection of War Art at the Canadian War Museum.