While there is anecdotal reporting on Canadian Aboriginal involvement in World War II—much of it in recent years due to an increase in the documentation of Indigenous history —new research on Aboriginal peoples in WWII has been written primarily from the Aboriginal male experience.

Since there was practically nothing written about the Aboriginal female experience, we are left wondering Where are their voices? What are their stories?

The objective of my M.A. research was to record, share, and analyze the stories and experiences of Aboriginal servicewomen in Canada's WWII. How did their experiences compare to those servicewomen of non-Aboriginal ancestry? Without previous investigation of this topic, there was not a foundation upon which to build.

Furthermore, locating former servicewomen was a challenging venture to undertake as the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of National Defence did not keep records detailing ethnicity and race.

From New Brunswick to British Columbia fourteen women were personally interviewed, along with one by telephone and another by written submission as were family members of two servicewomen, for a total of eighteen profiles.

The research in this book draws on oral histories to uncover the womens' experiences and to document their contribution to Canada's history.