The Farm Service Force
I’ve been spending some time lately learning about the time my mother, Lorraine Parker, spent working in the Farmerette Brigade of the Farm Service Force. It was wartime, and the program recruited girls and young women, aged sixteen and up, to work on Ontario farms at a time when most young farm workers were overseas fighting the enemy.
In return for their service, the participants were typically allowed to graduate (they called it junior or senior matriculation then) without attending the last month of classes or writing their final exams.
My mother served during the summer of 1945. I’ll tell you about that in another post very soon. But what I’m excited about right now is my very recent discovery that my Aunt Betty, my father’s sister, also served.
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