“These women played a key role in helping to win the war, and they’re truly unsung heroes …” said Dickson. Canadian women have increased their role in the war effort because of their growing expertise in producing war materials, from planes and bombs to guns and ships. Mrs. Rex Eaton, director of women’s employment, national selective service, said that women who take jobs in war work were performing “a duty of real patriotism and making a big contribution to Canada’s war effort.”GECO offered attractive perks. Over GECO’s operation, from autumn 1941 to 1945, 20,000 workers — mostly female — contributed to the war effort. Canada’s “bomb girls” risked lives and digits daily handling dangerous explosives and volatile gunpowder during the Second World War.

Source: thestar June 04, 2016 03:56 UTC