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 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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