Rosies of the North

THE STORY OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN IN THE CANADIAN WARTIME AVIATION INDUSTRY DURING WORLD WAR II.

0/10 1999 4K 47 min

Documentary

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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Top Cast

Martine Friesen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Wilson

Corinne Little

Jadwiga Kondakow

Nina Godecki

Mary Riddoch

Irene Fedell

Lorna Marsden

Elizabeth Schneewind

Gordon Burkowski

Rosies of the North

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