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and Mary Murphy, Long Branch, RIGHT, a stenographer by occupation made the rifle produced by fellow-workers an interesting subject for examination
and Mary Murphy, Long Branch, RIGHT, a stenographer by occupation made the rifle produced by fellow-workers an interesting subject for examination

and Mary Murphy, Long Branch, RIGHT, a stenographer by occupation made the rifle produced by fellow-workers an interesting subject for examination

Date6/2/1942
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Original Toronto Star caption: and Mary Murphy; Long Branch; RIGHT; a stenographer by occupation made the rifle produced by fellow-workers an interesting subject for examination.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019332F
Small Arms Ltd., Long Branch, has 287 grandmothers among its war workers, and personnel heads say they're the best workers in the plant. Mrs. Almanda (...)
Small Arms Ltd., Long Branch, has 287 grandmothers among its war workers, and personnel heads say they're the best workers in the plant. Mrs. Almanda (...)
9/1/1943
Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)
Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women, forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the wome(...)
6/14/1941
Machines, Material, Money Call For Workers: There is a factory in Toronto producing Bren guns at the rate of 97,500 a year
Machines, Material, Money Call For Workers: There is a factory in Toronto producing Bren guns at the rate of 97,500 a year
4/24/1941
Mrs. M. E. Nicholson says, It will be hard to go back to housework after the war. Plant officials say of the grandmothers: They're better workers than(...)
Mrs. M. E. Nicholson says, It will be hard to go back to housework after the war. Plant officials say of the grandmothers: They're better workers than(...)
9/1/1943
Elsie Freedman, Mrs. Elsie Freedman took the job by the horns and really showed the country's war workers that it can be done. For three-years she has(...)
Elsie Freedman, Mrs. Elsie Freedman took the job by the horns and really showed the country's war workers that it can be done. For three-years she has(...)
10/18/1944
One of the thousands of Canadian war workers who are turning their thoughts towards peacetime employment, above
One of the thousands of Canadian war workers who are turning their thoughts towards peacetime employment, above
5/26/1945
Here Dorothy Norwood holds the stop watch on Miss Secor in one of the tests designed to speed up selection of suitable workers
Here Dorothy Norwood holds the stop watch on Miss Secor in one of the tests designed to speed up selection of suitable workers
7/9/1942
Ten pretty girls, all workers at the John Inglis Co
Ten pretty girls, all workers at the John Inglis Co
4/2/1944
Make small arms big for our fighting men is the slogan of 3,000 women and 1,000 men at work in the Small Arms plant at Long Branch. A product of their(...)
Make small arms big for our fighting men is the slogan of 3,000 women and 1,000 men at work in the Small Arms plant at Long Branch. A product of their(...)
6/2/1942
More than 100,000 of these 500-pound aerial bombs are produced in Canada annually, says the caption
More than 100,000 of these 500-pound aerial bombs are produced in Canada annually, says the caption
1/1/1941
This high precision tool in a Canadian munitions plant has an interesting history
This high precision tool in a Canadian munitions plant has an interesting history
3/23/1941
Grandmother Mary Beer can handle any one of a dozen machines at the war plant where she is employed
Grandmother Mary Beer can handle any one of a dozen machines at the war plant where she is employed
2/10/1943