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Special Goggles are worn by miss C
Special Goggles are worn by miss C

Special Goggles are worn by miss C

Date9/1/1941
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Original Toronto Star caption: Special Goggles are worn by miss C. Atheron; 18-year-old daughter of a British miner; as she is instructed in operations of a machine which cleans fuse detonators. She's one of a growing army of girls in the mother country's munitions plants
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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_0019364F
Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun
Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun
30 June 1944
Putting order into the chaos of bullets brought to her by a travelling belt, this smiling miss, in the same Quebec plant, is as nonchalant as if she were only packing caramels
Putting order into the chaos of bullets brought to her by a travelling belt, this smiling miss, in the same Quebec plant, is as nonchalant as if she were only packing caramels
11/15/1941
Miss Negro War Worker of the U.S. is Belle Calloun, chief wire machine operator in a war plant
Miss Negro War Worker of the U.S. is Belle Calloun, chief wire machine operator in a war plant
6/29/1943
Miniature bombs held by Miss Vivian Baker at Piat, projectiles similar to those used by Canada's new V
Miniature bombs held by Miss Vivian Baker at Piat, projectiles similar to those used by Canada's new V
7/1/1934
Miss Gay Park of Windsor is one of the 350 Ontario school teachers who have volunteered to work during their summer vacation at General Engineering Co(...)
Miss Gay Park of Windsor is one of the 350 Ontario school teachers who have volunteered to work during their summer vacation at General Engineering Co(...)
2 July 1943
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
Large group of smiling women coming off train 
Crews of Canadian girls commute each day by special trian to one of Canada's great war plants
11/9/1940
These Big Shells being painted by John Havryluk for rust protection, are a small drop in the vast flood of Made-in-Canada munitions pouring, says Hon. C. D. Howe, into all war theatres
These Big Shells being painted by John Havryluk for rust protection, are a small drop in the vast flood of Made-in-Canada munitions pouring, says Hon. C. D. Howe, into all war theatres
6/6/1942
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
10 July 1944
Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co
Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co
30 June 1944
Geco fuse-maker Lotte Walsh and fireman David Leslie, The biggest industrial fire department in Canada, and one of the biggest of any kind in the prov(...)
Geco fuse-maker Lotte Walsh and fireman David Leslie, The biggest industrial fire department in Canada, and one of the biggest of any kind in the prov(...)
4 July 1944
Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant
Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant
1 March 1943