

10/11/1999
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
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Wilson
as

Corinne Little
as

Jadwiga Kondakow
as

Nina Godecki
as

Mary Riddoch
as

Irene Fedell
as

Lorna Marsden
as

Elizabeth Schneewind
as

Gordon Burkowski
as

Muriel Bailey
as

Alice Taylor
as

Jim Carmichael
as

Alan Norton
as

Helen Gural
as

Lauretta Breckon Jones
as

George Bicknell
as

Ann Soulsby
as

Kaylee Busniak
as

Tracey Busniak
as

Marilyn Bellin
as

Jack Little
as

Margaret Gandier
as

Don Gandier
as
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