Rosies of the North

Rosies of the North

Movie 1999-11-10 47m Documentary
★ 7.0 / 10 · 1 votes

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.

Status
Released
Released
1999-11-10
Runtime
47m
Studio
ONF | NFB
Country
Canada
Language
English
Links
IMDb, Wikidata, Letterboxd
Director
Kelly Saxberg
Cast
Martine Friesen Martine Friesen Self - Narrator (voice)
Randy Wilson Randy Wilson
Corinne Little Corinne Little
Jadwiga Kondakow Jadwiga Kondakow
Nina Godecki Nina Godecki
Mary Riddoch Mary Riddoch
Irene Fedell Irene Fedell
Lorna Marsden Lorna Marsden
Elizabeth Schneewind Elizabeth Schneewind
Gordon Burkowski Gordon Burkowski
Muriel Bailey Muriel Bailey
Alice Taylor Alice Taylor
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