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Rosies of the North

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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English
  • world war ii
  • engineering
  • aircraft factory
  • war effort
  • factory girl
  • life during wartime
  • women
  • elsie macgill
  • rosie the riveter

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    • PremierePremiered on History Television10 Nov 1999

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Rosies of the North was released on 10 November 1999.

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