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This research note examines Canada’s wartime Women’s Land Army and associated farmerette programs to highlight the value of visual sources for understanding women’s agricultural labour during the First and Second World Wars. Drawing on twenty photographs of women working in orchards, fields, and canneries alongside feminist ethnohistorical methods, it shows how images of uniforms, camp life, and physically demanding farm work both document women’s contributions to the war effort and recover experiences largely absent from conventional archives and policy records. The author argues that combining visual evidence with narrative and reflexive analysis can personalize the historical record, challenge male-centred accounts of wartime labour, and make scholarship on rural women’s work more accessible beyond academia.