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Make small arms big for our fighting men is the slogan of 3;000 women and 1;000 men at work in the Small Arms plant at Long Branch. A product of their work is displayed by Mary Starchuck; New Toronto (LEFT); who handles a Sten gun like a veteran.
Picture, 1942
They're capable; these woman; the foremen say. Louise Therriault of Montreal is seen in a bomber cockpit; connecting switch boxes; smiling as she works
Picture, 1942
Gauging fuse
Picture, 1942
Heavier work than ever before is now being allotted women; besides many highly technical jobs. Jacqueline Bourdon and Elizabeth Saad work inside a bomber
Picture, 1942
Handle With Care is the motto of the girls as they pack cordite is silk bags in a munitions plant. One-third of the workers are women.
Picture, 1942
Fumi Shoyama; graduate nurse; who ministers to the Japanese women and children in Hastings Park; Vancouver. Fumi was born and educated in Canada.
Picture, 1942
Typical of thousands of young women who play important roles in the war-time scene is Mary Spellan; accountant in Research's glass-making department.
Picture, 1943
Welcome To Tunis; is the cry of this woman and her small baby to the driver of a French reconnaissance car as the men of the Zouave regiment accept the honor of marching through the town the day after the victory.
Picture, 1943
"The Stewart Girls" as they are known at the plant, look over a shell which they helped make. Mrs. Stewart holds the fuse end; she is supervisor in the fuse filling shop. Barbara is supervisor in the primer filling shop.
Picture, 1943
Star girl enlists; Isobel McRae; employed in The Star business office for six years; has enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval service and has been posted to Galt.
Picture, 1943
Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers; Wives; mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-filling in Danforth technical school. Here are (LEFT to RIGHT); Mrs. Hedley Dollimore; mother of two whose husband is in the army at Camp Borden; Mrs. Christine Ramsey; an instructress at the classes; and Mrs. Harold Nash; who has a brother in the army and knits for the Red Cross in spare time.
Picture, 1943
Formerly a man's job; sandblasting is now being done by women. Lillian Nunn is an expert.
Picture, 1943
Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant. The sisters ran a restaurant nearby before going to work in the plant.
Picture, 1943
A girl crane operator; Mrs. Blanche Millette; lifts a ten-ton load as easily as she would operate a sewing machine. She is one of thousands praying women have a definite place in ward plants.
Picture, 1943
Miss Gay Park of Windsor is one of the 350 Ontario school teachers who have volunteered to work during their summer vacation at General Engineering Company, Scarboro war plant, so that regular war workers there will be able to have summer holidays. Miss Park was a teacher at Gordon McGregor school. Windsor.
Picture, 1943
Miss Jean Reed; for 5 1/2 years an employee of the circulation department of The Toronto Star Weekly; who has enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service. Miss Reed is the Youngest daughter of Mrs. R. A. Reed of Barrie. Her sister; Kay; has been a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force (women's division) for some time and recently completed an officer's training course. A brother; Ernest; is in the Royal Canadian Air Force at No. 4 wireless school; Burtch; Ont. Miss Reed is being posted to H.M.C.S. Conestoga at Galt.
Picture, 1943
Operator of a turret lathe in the plant of Research Enterprises; Ann Haladay; 26; of Browning Ave.; former Saskatchewan girl; wears an Idea for Victory pin; first one presented to a woman war worker in Canada. It came to her recently from the of an idea or suggestion; but for outstanding efficiency on her job. One of the first woman employees in the plant she says she's never been on a job she likes as well. Former hairdresser by trade; she likes movies; bowling; enjoys watching baseball and hockey.
Picture, 1943
At the General Engineering Co. plant at Scarboro and the Defence Industries Ltd. plant at Ajax, 3,400 women workers are needed to help make shells so that the guns can be kept in action. Margaret Miller, fuse maker at General Engineering, asks for help to fill the gaps in the line - to keep the guns supplied.
Picture, 1944
Geco fuse-maker Lotte Walsh and fireman David Leslie; The biggest industrial fire department in Canada, and one of the biggest of any kind in the province, has never had a fire it couldn't put out with a bucket of sand.
Picture, 1944
A sight for the sun-blistered eyes of the Canadian fighting men on the Italian front is Pte. Jean Gallani of the Canadian Women's Army Corps; Halifax. A trouper with the Canadian Army Show; she is shown here resting at a Canadian casualty clearing station in Italy.
Picture, 1944
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