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Rosies of the North
Rosies of the North

Rosies of the North

Documentary
1999, CA
46m

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Martine Friesen

Martine Friesen

Randy Wilson

Randy Wilson

Corinne Little

Corinne Little

Jadwiga Kondakow

Jadwiga Kondakow

Nina Godecki

Nina Godecki

Mary Riddoch

Mary Riddoch

Irene Fedell

Irene Fedell

Lorna Marsden

Lorna Marsden

Elizabeth Schneewind

Elizabeth Schneewind

Gordon Burkowski

Gordon Burkowski

Kelly Saxberg

Kelly Saxberg

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The story of the contribution of women in the Canadian wartime aviation industry during World War II.

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They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.

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