

The story of the contribution of women in the Canadian wartime aviation industry during World War II.
November 10, 1999
47m
EN
Kelly Saxberg
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.

Martine Friesen
Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Wilson
Cast

Corinne Little
Cast

Jadwiga Kondakow
Cast


Robert Lower
1

Nina Godecki
Cast

Mary Riddoch
Cast

Irene Fedell
Cast

Lorna Marsden
Cast

Elizabeth Schneewind
Cast

Gordon Burkowski
Cast

ONF | NFB
CA