This is a part two of a two-part article that gives a biography of some important Canadian women who were in WW2 as well as their life after the war.
Veronica Foster commonly known as &#;Ronnie, The Bren Gun Girl&#;, became well known for producing Bren Light Machine Guns at John Inglis Co. Veronica became Canada’s propaganda “poster girl” during World War II representing about one million women working in manufacturing plants. Due to a clever public relations/ propaganda poster campaign the Canadian Government generated huge support for the war and created Canada’s first genuine tabloid celebrity.
In her most famous photograph, Ronnie sports curve-hugging overalls while effortlessly exhaling smoke from her cigarette as she admires her recently assembled Bren gun. This public fascination erupted and the now famous image of her appeared in numerous major newspapers around the world including being on the front page of the New York Times as part of a feature on women absorbed into the Canadian War Industry. The United States decided to create its own female war icon and used Ronnie attributes for the well-known American propaganda image of “Rosie the R
The Bren Gun Girl
This time, the inspiration came in a bar in Costa Rica.
Canadian Women at Wartime Work
As men (and a number of women, too) trudged off to European battle sites in World War Two, their jobs in Canada were left empty. Who was left at home to build the cars? Who was left to keep the munitions factories in production? Who was left to build the weapons? Women were.
Women readily took over the posts in almost every capacity – heavy equipment operators, scientists, loggers, shipyard workers, munitions inspectors – almost any position. They enjoyed the freedom of working out of the home and of gaining a paycheque. Employers learned that women had great skills, according to Anne Fromer’s comment in the book, Back the Attack! by author Jean Bruce. “In addition to handling tools and machines they have shown great skill in production planning, in routing and control of operations connected with production, drafting, toolcrib and store tending, dispatching and timekeeping.” Women’s skills as inspectors were exceptionally able, she said, including, “passing on munitions, inspecting gun barrels and gun-carriage part, explosives, radio equipment and rejected materials.”
Women in Munitions
Some of the newly-working women felt that equality ha
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Veronica Foster, an employee of the John Inglis Co. Ltd. Bren gun plant, known as "The Bren Gun Girl" poses with a finished Bren gun at the John Inglis Co. plant. /
Veronica Foster, une employée de la John Inglis Co. Ltd., connue comme étant «&#;la fille du fusil-mitrailleur Bren&#;» pose avec un Bren terminé à l'usine de la John Inglis Co.
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