A photograph of the “Maple Knit-Wits,” 1942.
A photograph of the “Maple Knit-Wits,” 1942.
The “Maple Knit-Wits” was an organization from the Village of Maple, established to assist the Allied war effort during the Second World War. Pictured above are women who were present at a club meeting Oct. 6, 1942 (from left to right): Alice Miller, Lillian Miller, Betty Moore, Ina Palmer, Helen Cousins, Dorothy Noble, Audrey MacNaughton, Eileen Allen and Marion Watson.
As women were excluded from combat during the First World War and limited to certain roles during the Second World War, the women who remained on the home front and wished to support their family and community members often did so through service work, such as knitting goods, raising funds and sending care packages.
They were also expected to help raise morale and take on roles men had previously filled in the workforce.
City of Vaughan Archives: M000.1
A photograph of the “Maple Knit-Wits,” 1942.
A photograph of the “Maple Knit-Wits,” 1942.
The “Maple Knit-Wits” was an organization from the Village of Maple, established to assist the Allied war effort during the Second World War. Pictured above are women who were present at a club meeting Oct. 6, 1942 (from left to right): Alice Miller, Lillian Miller, Betty Moore, Ina Palmer, Helen Cousins, Dorothy Noble, Audrey MacNaughton, Eileen Allen and Marion Watson.
As women were excluded from combat during the First World War and limited to certain roles during the Second World War, the women who remained on the home front and wished to support their family and community members often did so through service work, such as knitting goods, raising funds and sending care packages.
They were also expected to help raise morale and take on roles men had previously filled in the workforce.
City of Vaughan Archives: M000.1