Rosies of the North

Rosies of the North

The story of the contribution of women in the Canadian wartime aviation industry during World War II.

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.

CA

Made in CA

7/10

1999

Documentary
ONF | NFB

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Cast

Martine Friesen

Martine Friesen

As Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Wilson

Randy Wilson

As

Corinne Little

Corinne Little

As

Jadwiga Kondakow

Jadwiga Kondakow

As

Nina Godecki

Nina Godecki

As

Mary Riddoch

Mary Riddoch

As

Irene Fedell

Irene Fedell

As

Lorna Marsden

Lorna Marsden

As

Elizabeth Schneewind

Elizabeth Schneewind

As

Gordon Burkowski

Gordon Burkowski

As

Muriel Bailey

Muriel Bailey

As

Alice Taylor

Alice Taylor

As

Jim Carmichael

Jim Carmichael

As

Alan Norton

Alan Norton

As

Helen Gural

Helen Gural

As

Lauretta Breckon Jones

Lauretta Breckon Jones

As

George Bicknell

George Bicknell

As

Ann Soulsby

Ann Soulsby

As

Kaylee Busniak

Kaylee Busniak

As

Tracey Busniak

Tracey Busniak

As

Marilyn Bellin

Marilyn Bellin

As

Jack Little

Jack Little

As

Margaret Gandier

Margaret Gandier

As

Don Gandier

Don Gandier

As

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