There's a wonderful picture I've seen of a female worker at the John Inglis plant in Toronto, sitting in front of a Bren (the world's best light machine gun, of course, made in the world's best Bren factory
). I'll find a scan of her someplace...
Think also of all the female pilots charged with ferrying aircraft all over the place. Anything from a Tiger Moth to a Lancaster. Amazing women.
Lastly, all of the Canadian war brides from Britain and the continent (particularly Holland) who came over here afterwards to make an uncertain future into something they, and we, can be proud of.
I salute them all.