Rosies of the North

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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47 min

Cast

Martine Friesen

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Wilson

Corinne Little

Jadwiga Kondakow

Nina Godecki

Mary Riddoch

Irene Fedell

Lorna Marsden

Elizabeth Schneewind

Gordon Burkowski

Muriel Bailey

Alice Taylor

Jim Carmichael

Alan Norton

Helen Gural

Lauretta Breckon Jones

George Bicknell

Ann Soulsby

Kaylee Busniak

Tracey Busniak

Marilyn Bellin

Jack Little

Margaret Gandier

Don Gandier

Director

Kelly Saxberg