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Tank production at the Montreal Locomotive Works

three rows of dozens of army tanks and workers in a factory

Photo:

Hayward Studios

Library and Archives Canada, PA-069187

Canadian industry switched to war production during World War II. For example, the Montreal Locomotive Works produced tanks for the Canadian Army. Manufacture of trucks, tanks, airplanes, ships, artillery and rifles required massive amounts of steel. Thus, iron ore from the Bell Island mines was crucial to the Allied war effort.