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Hi Ma!
This is one answer that I had up my sleeve as it were because Regina Industries Ltd, together with Border City Industries Ltd were the two Crown Corporations that GM of Canada formed for the munitions production at Regina and the new plant at the top of Walker Road, Windsor (nee Walkerville) respectively. The latter became GM's Trim Plant but poor Regina closed for the final time in 1946 and that was then end of that sorry saga: 1928-30; 1931; 1937-1941 as assembly plants then 1941-45 as munitions plant. No employee records would exist I think, but there may be I suggested, a report in the local paper [The REGINA STAR] and they have a "morgue" of sorts with clippings but the Provincial Library in Saskatoon is it [?] may well have back microfilm copies. I do wonder if the Death Certificate may hold some information?
Other than that I am stumped, and apprciate your suggestions which I shall pass on. I can imagine that an industrial accident would have had some column-inches even in the war.
I realy feel sorry for the locals, as they seem to have held out hope for industrialisation at the time when agriculture was the only major income source, and they lost out on the on-off auto industry roller-coaster, and finally because Oshawa proved it could handle and cope with all assembly work [though the St Catherines, Ontario plant kicked in with V-8 engine production in late 1954]. However, yet another sad wartime story has come out of the woodwork now.
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