Feature1999·47m·7.0

Rosies of the North

The story of the contribution of women in the Canadian wartime aviation industry during World War II.

Documentary

They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.

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Cast

Martine Friesen

Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Wilson

Corinne Little

Jadwiga Kondakow

Nina Godecki

Mary Riddoch

Irene Fedell

Lorna Marsden

Elizabeth Schneewind

Gordon Burkowski

Muriel Bailey

Alice Taylor

Jim Carmichael

Alan Norton

Helen Gural

Lauretta Breckon Jones

George Bicknell

Ann Soulsby

Kaylee Busniak

Tracey Busniak

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
Revenue
Age rating
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
ONF | NFB

Crew

Director

Kelly Saxberg

Writers

Robert Lower

Kelly Saxberg

Editor

Greg Lowe

Original Music Composer

Ian Elkin

Director of Photography

Gallery