Rosies of the North backgrop image
Rosies of the North poster

Rosies of the North

1999 • 0h47m Documentary

Popularity

0

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.

Details

Director

Kelly Saxberg

Screenplay

Robert Lower

Cast

Martine Friesen

Randy Wilson

Corinne Little

Release date

11/10/1999

Status

Released

Origin country

CA