Rosies of the North
- Released on
- Runtime
- 46 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Martine Friesen
- 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
Producers
- Joe MacDonald
