Women at War

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Originally posted by John McGillivray
Don’t forget all of the women who were working at the various factories building the materials used during the war. My mother spent the war working at Northern Electric in Montreal. She continued to work there after the war, up until she got married.

Dose anyone know what was being produced at Northern Electric?

Hey John,
Small coincidence,
My aunts also worked at Northern off St.Patrick Street during the war.My mother worked at Canadian Car Foundry in the long building on the 2-20 in Turcot Yard riveting tail assemblies for Hudson bombers,while her father worked at Canadian Arsenals in Lachine as an artillery shell inspector(He was formerly from the Royal School of Artillery CWO=then RCHA retired).Small world.My wife's aunts worked down in the east end at Vickers,building Canso patrol bombers.I think most people from Verdun worked in the war industry