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.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Martine Friesen, Randy Wilson, Corinne Little, Jadwiga Kondakow, Nina Godecki, Mary Riddoch
Crew: Robert Lower (Script), Robert Lower (Writer), Kelly Saxberg (Editor), Saul Henteleff (Sound Editor), Graydon McCrea (Executive Producer), Kelly Saxberg (Director)
Country: Canada
Language: English
Studio: ONF | NFB
Runtime: 46 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 10, 1999
IMDb: 10
