A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917

Canada; Bronze, unmarked, 18 mm x 24.5 mm, horizontal pinback, on a 27 mm x 49 mm ribbon, extremely fine.

Footnote: The Farm Service Corps (“Farmerettes”) was created in response to the labour shortage during the First World War and was an initiative of the Ontario government, similar in purpose to the national Soldiers of the Soil program, but aimed mainly at women. Its “farmerettes” assisted in all aspects of farm work, replacing the labour of men lost to military service. In 1918, for example, 2,400 women picked fruit in the Niagara region.[C:17]