"World War, 1939-1945" women : Digital Archive Ontario

Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co. plant at Scarboro. Here a 3.7 ack-ack gun is shown on display at the Geco plant, being inspected by five workers, Frances Russell, Audrey McNabb, Sydney Cumberland, Norma Clark and Betty Carroll. One of these guns can throw hundreds of heavy shells every hour.

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

After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment. Here she's getting herself a cooling drink.

Picture, 1944

Teacher becomes pupil in war plant: Greta Huffman, teacher at Roden public school, gets a lesson in fuse-filling from Doris Frost, supervisor at General Engineering. Greta is one of 400 school teachers who are spending the summer helping to speed up the production of shells for the invading armies.

Picture, 1944

Completely Clad in Germany garb; even to the helmet; this Polish woman on guard at Haren camp is here inspecting the identity card of Driver William Massey; St. Mary's. Her own uniform was beyond repaid

Picture, 1945

Airborne troops are landing all around this German woman and her children who have taken refuge in a fox hole on the Rhine's east bank.

Picture, 1945

Lining up in Berlin; men; women and children wait before a potato pile in a street to receive their rations of potatoes. Two women supervise the distribution as they fill empty bags with shovels. Food is scarce in the German capital and there are few buildings suitable for districbuting centres. Allied vehicles carry food to the city

Picture, 1945

This woman laughed when she had seen the film of the Belsen and Buchenwold brutalities once; so a British officer orders her back into the theatre for a second view of horrors

Picture, 1945

This Japanese Woman with her baby strapped to her back is getting ready for the U.S. occupation troops. She's cleaning a window in Atzubi barracks in Tokyo now occupied by the 1st Cavalry Divison

Picture, 1945

Woman's place; said the Nazis; was in the kitchen. Now it is in the ruins of the whole house. They are doing; as the streets show; a good job of cleaning up and tackling the piles of rubble that once were buildings. and with German hausfrau efficiency formed an efficient bucket brigade.

Picture, 1945

Women War Criminals on trial with other Nazis at Lueneberg; Germany; sit in the prisoners dock; wearing identification numbers; and listen to the procedings. Identifiable are; (8) Herta Ehlert; a warden at Belsen; (9) Irma Grese; assistant to Josef Kramer; the Beast of Belsen; (10) IIse Lithe; warden of Belsen

Picture, 1945

Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun. These big weapons use vast amounts of shells, firing them 40,000 feet into the air; each automatically timed to burst by an intricate fuse. More shells of all types are being used now than ever before. And 3,400 women workers are needed to fill the gaps at Scarboro and the D.I.L. plant at Ajax to keep the shells coming.

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Toronto me; women; boys and girls who pass aptitude tests find themselves building planes. Starting her test is Jean Secor.

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Two Young Women are here inspecting the equipment in a Ram tank before the gun shield is rivetted in place and the cannan installed. Designed by Maj. Gen. F. F. Worthington; O.C. 4th Canadian division; Rams are being supplied to two Canadian divisions.

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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.

After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment. Here she's getting herself a cooling drink.

Teacher becomes pupil in war plant: Greta Huffman, teacher at Roden public school, gets a lesson in fuse-filling from Doris Frost, supervisor at General Engineering. Greta is one of 400 school teachers who are spending the summer helping to speed up the production of shells for the invading armies.

Completely Clad in Germany garb; even to the helmet; this Polish woman on guard at Haren camp is here inspecting the identity card of Driver William Massey; St. Mary's. Her own uniform was beyond repaid

Airborne troops are landing all around this German woman and her children who have taken refuge in a fox hole on the Rhine's east bank.

This woman laughed when she had seen the film of the Belsen and Buchenwold brutalities once; so a British officer orders her back into the theatre for a second view of horrors

This Japanese Woman with her baby strapped to her back is getting ready for the U.S. occupation troops. She's cleaning a window in Atzubi barracks in Tokyo now occupied by the 1st Cavalry Divison

Woman's place; said the Nazis; was in the kitchen. Now it is in the ruins of the whole house. They are doing; as the streets show; a good job of cleaning up and tackling the piles of rubble that once were buildings. and with German hausfrau efficiency formed an efficient bucket brigade.

Toronto me; women; boys and girls who pass aptitude tests find themselves building planes. Starting her test is Jean Secor.

Two Young Women are here inspecting the equipment in a Ram tank before the gun shield is rivetted in place and the cannan installed. Designed by Maj. Gen. F. F. Worthington; O.C. 4th Canadian division; Rams are being supplied to two Canadian divisions.

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