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Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo Paperback - 2015

by Barbara Dickson


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2016 Speaker's Book Award -- Shortlisted
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award -- Nominated

An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War.

What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of "Rosie the Riveter" so popularly advertised to promote factory work in war propaganda posters? How closely does the recent TV show, Bomb Girls, resemble the actual historical record of the day-to-day lives of bomb-making employees?

Bomb Girls delivers a dramatic, personal, and detailed review of Canada's largest fuse-filling munitions factory, situated in Scarborough, Ontario. First-hand accounts, technical records, photographic evidence, business documentation, and site maps all come together to offer a rare, complete account into the lives of over twenty-one thousand brave men and women who risked their lives daily while handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to help win the war.

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  • Title Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo
  • Author Barbara Dickson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dundurn Press, Toronto
  • Date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781459731165 / 1459731166
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Women - Canada, World War, 1939-1945 - War work - Canada
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015462332
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.530

About the author

Barbara Dickson is a sought-after motivational public speaker, local historian, and writer of fiction and periodical pieces. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario.
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