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

They also serve

Ephemera, 1939

She serves - that men may fly

Ephemera, 1939

Specialists typists cooks stenographers clerks etc urgently needed

Ephemera, 1939

Their ranks wil. For 40;000 Canadian women between 18 and 50; the Hyde Park agreement is going to mean something more concrete than a historic declaration of international co [Incomplete]

Picture, 1940

Taking a cue from other democratic countries; women in the Unied States are flocking into war industries. This attactive blonde is working on rubber coverings for plane fuel tanks.

Picture, 1941

A woman is never too busy to think of her appearance; however. They are ready for rough and tough work; but like this one; they are glad to have gloves to keep the hands neat. She is an expert in welding. A poster in the factory shows Hitler holding an aching head; as well he might; at the thought of the acceleration in manufacture of war materials on this continent; out of reach fo his bombs.

Picture, 1941

Canadian Women help make war equipment. A young lady curls metal sheets for parachute flare containers.

Picture, 1941

As never before; women are running the entire scale of jobs in Canadian war industry. Grinding; welding; assembling; drilling punching; pressing; packing; shaping on machines big and small are jobs for women today. This girl is an expert on a grinding wheel. She is working on an airplane part.

Picture, 1941

Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women; forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the women assembling parachute flares; some of which weigh up to thirty pounds.

Picture, 1941

The brief simple ceremony was attended by hundreds of workmen; who quit their jobs for a few moments to witness the dedication of the first-fruits of their labor. Here munitions inspectors at the plant line up behind women spectators. The tank; Mr. Howe said; is a Canadian product; into which radical changes in design have been introudced. Hundreds of other mbile fortresses will soon follow this first one.

Picture, 1941

Gauging fuse

Picture, 1942

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

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

Flower-covered caskets of 28 English schoolboys and their woman headmaster are borne in motor trucks to a communal grave in an English village. They were killed when a single bomb from a lone Nazi raider shattered the schoolhouse

Picture, 1942

Revolutionary! exclaimed a supervisor; at women working on parts of fuselage; as Valida igle and Jean Neil are; rivetting main piping [Incomplete]

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

Down in Quebec women are playing a big role in a gun plant and here Isobel MacKenzie inspects six-pounder gun parts.

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

A Japanese woman waves at a distant window

Picture, 1942

At right she is shown at her delicate and important job. She is believed to be the only woman tool and die maker in Canada. Toronto born; 19 years ago; and a graduate of a commerce school; she exchanged her typewriter for a cutting tool while employed as stenographer at an industrial plant three years ago.

Picture, 1942

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They also serve

She serves - that men may fly

Specialists typists cooks stenographers clerks etc urgently needed

Their ranks wil. For 40;000 Canadian women between 18 and 50; the Hyde Park agreement is going to mean something more concrete than a historic declaration of international co [Incomplete]

Taking a cue from other democratic countries; women in the Unied States are flocking into war industries. This attactive blonde is working on rubber coverings for plane fuel tanks.

Canadian Women help make war equipment. A young lady curls metal sheets for parachute flare containers.

As never before; women are running the entire scale of jobs in Canadian war industry. Grinding; welding; assembling; drilling punching; pressing; packing; shaping on machines big and small are jobs for women today. This girl is an expert on a grinding wheel. She is working on an airplane part.

Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women; forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the women assembling parachute flares; some of which weigh up to thirty pounds.

Gauging fuse

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.

Fumi Shoyama; graduate nurse; who ministers to the Japanese women and children in Hastings Park; Vancouver. Fumi was born and educated in Canada.

Flower-covered caskets of 28 English schoolboys and their woman headmaster are borne in motor trucks to a communal grave in an English village. They were killed when a single bomb from a lone Nazi raider shattered the schoolhouse

Revolutionary! exclaimed a supervisor; at women working on parts of fuselage; as Valida igle and Jean Neil are; rivetting main piping [Incomplete]

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.

Down in Quebec women are playing a big role in a gun plant and here Isobel MacKenzie inspects six-pounder gun parts.

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

A Japanese woman waves at a distant window

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