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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(...)

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(...)

Date9/1/1943
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 their daughters; are seldom absent or late; are devoted to their job and don't worry about dates.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018959F
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
Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
6/5/1943
Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)
Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)
2/10/1943
Lens cleaner in a Toronto war plant is this grandmother, Mrs
Lens cleaner in a Toronto war plant is this grandmother, Mrs
1/18/1943
Not only a war worker is Mrs. J. Spence, another grandmother, but she also is a donor of blood to the Red Cross clinic. Her husband is overseas
Not only a war worker is Mrs. J. Spence, another grandmother, but she also is a donor of blood to the Red Cross clinic. Her husband is overseas
1/18/1943
Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)
Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)
4/7/1943
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
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
Red cross worker for ten years, Mrs. Gertrude Menear, 42-year-old grandmother, operates a disc-cutting machine
Red cross worker for ten years, Mrs. Gertrude Menear, 42-year-old grandmother, operates a disc-cutting machine
1/13/1943
Doing her bit, by making the tools of war, is another Toronto grandmother, Mrs
Doing her bit, by making the tools of war, is another Toronto grandmother, Mrs
1/18/1943
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
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