

Rosies of the North
The story of the contribution of women in the Canadian wartime aviation industry during World War II.
Genres
Overview
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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Budget
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Runtime
46 min
Release Date
1999-11-10
Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Martine Friesen
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
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