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Women working in wartime

Interior view of the Back River Power Company factory floor in 1942. Women seated at large tables preparing cylindrical cardboard packaging for ammunition that will be shipped to the European front. Standing on the left, a man overseeing their work. On the right, boxes full of cylinders.

Société d’histoire d’Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Cité historia Fonds.

Women working at the Back River Power Company take part in the war effort by preparing cardboard packaging for ammunition that will be shipped to the European front during the Second World War.