World War, 1939-1945 : Digital Archive Ontario

She didn't even look up when the photographer's bulb flashed. She's Georgina Ogilvie; and she's riveting on a bomber. Girls regularly do this now.

Picture, 1942

525;000 Heavy shells; 25;000;000 cartridges . . every week

Picture, 1945

Putting order into the chaos of bullets brought to her by a travelling belt; this smiling miss; in the same Quebec plant; is as nonchalant as if she were only packing caramels.

Picture, 1941

Members of the cadet corps at St. Andrew's College wore gas masks and marched through clouds of make-believe poison gas for their annual inspection in May 1942, Aurora, Ontario

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

Victory Loan, 1918, Ontario campaign : canvassers' special report

Ephemera, 1918

Wrecked axis ships; pounded from the air and sea; littered Bengazi harbor when General Alexander's Eighty Army arrived close behind the retreating German Afrika Korps. Some idea of the effectiveness of the efforts of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy in preventing suplies and reinforcements reaching General Rommels army may be gained from this photograph.

Picture, 1943

Star Employee Enlists; Alex Digby; 19; employed by The Star as a truck helper; was called up last Saturday for active service in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve; and has reported for duty.

Picture, 1939

Adding the finishing touch to the Covenanter tank she helped to make; this young war worker is seen chalking up a bit of inspiration on the tank's gun and mounting.

Picture, 1942

A blazing inferno from raging fires touched off by three torpedo hits from a Japanese submarine is the U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp shown just before she sank in the southwest Pacific.

Picture, 1942

Star printer R.C.A.F recruit; R. W. Riall; for 15 years a member of The Star composing roof staff; recently entered the R.C.A.F.

Picture, 1943

Countess with border official 'The Countess' comes home her movements a mystery; Special to The Star; Windsor. March 20-Mystery today shrouded the whereabouts of Countess Grace Buchanan-Dineen; Toronto-born glamour girl of the '30's; who allegedly strayed from society's select path into Hitler's foreign service.

Picture, 1948

Dunlop Family

Picture, 1942

Joins Toronto Scottish; Leonard Pearce; for the past four years an employee of The Star; has enlisted with the Toronto Scottish Regiment.

Picture, 1942

In Schreiber; Ont.; the residents are getting ready for Japanese nationals evacuated from the British Columbia coast. This is one of the residents of Schreiber; shovelling snow from the front of one of the bunk houses of the settlement.

Picture, 1942

Arthur Rudolph: Rocket scientist also cited concern about finances.

Picture, 1990

Special Goggles are worn by miss C. Atheron; 18-year-old daughter of a British miner; as she is instructed in operations of a machine which cleans fuse detonators. She's one of a growing army of girls in the mother country's munitions plants

Picture, 1941

Only survivor of his family; except one cousin who reached Sweden; Leon Chojna; seen with Margaret McPherson; a Red Cross nurse; examines shoes and a doll made at Belsen. Shoes are like ones he helped make during four years in concentration camp

Picture, 1947

War 1939 Munitions - Manufacture - Canada - miscellaneous

Picture, 1942

Cyril F. Porter; former member of the circulation department of The Star; has enlisted in the transport division of the R.C.A.F. His wife resides on Keele St.

Picture, 1943

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She didn't even look up when the photographer's bulb flashed. She's Georgina Ogilvie; and she's riveting on a bomber. Girls regularly do this now.

525;000 Heavy shells; 25;000;000 cartridges . . every week

Putting order into the chaos of bullets brought to her by a travelling belt; this smiling miss; in the same Quebec plant; is as nonchalant as if she were only packing caramels.

Members of the cadet corps at St. Andrew's College wore gas masks and marched through clouds of make-believe poison gas for their annual inspection in May 1942, Aurora, Ontario

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

Victory Loan, 1918, Ontario campaign : canvassers' special report

Star Employee Enlists; Alex Digby; 19; employed by The Star as a truck helper; was called up last Saturday for active service in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve; and has reported for duty.

Adding the finishing touch to the Covenanter tank she helped to make; this young war worker is seen chalking up a bit of inspiration on the tank's gun and mounting.

A blazing inferno from raging fires touched off by three torpedo hits from a Japanese submarine is the U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp shown just before she sank in the southwest Pacific.

Star printer R.C.A.F recruit; R. W. Riall; for 15 years a member of The Star composing roof staff; recently entered the R.C.A.F.

Dunlop Family

Joins Toronto Scottish; Leonard Pearce; for the past four years an employee of The Star; has enlisted with the Toronto Scottish Regiment.

In Schreiber; Ont.; the residents are getting ready for Japanese nationals evacuated from the British Columbia coast. This is one of the residents of Schreiber; shovelling snow from the front of one of the bunk houses of the settlement.

Arthur Rudolph: Rocket scientist also cited concern about finances.

Special Goggles are worn by miss C. Atheron; 18-year-old daughter of a British miner; as she is instructed in operations of a machine which cleans fuse detonators. She's one of a growing army of girls in the mother country's munitions plants

Only survivor of his family; except one cousin who reached Sweden; Leon Chojna; seen with Margaret McPherson; a Red Cross nurse; examines shoes and a doll made at Belsen. Shoes are like ones he helped make during four years in concentration camp

War 1939 Munitions - Manufacture - Canada - miscellaneous

Cyril F. Porter; former member of the circulation department of The Star; has enlisted in the transport division of the R.C.A.F. His wife resides on Keele St.

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