Barbara Dickson

Bomb Girls

Trading Aprons for Ammo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gives a rare account of life in Canada's largest Second World War munitions facility, built and managed by General Engineering Company Ltd. Located on 346 acres in Scarborough, Ontario, GECO hired over twenty-one thousand employees - predominantly women - who risked life and limb handling high explosives daily.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781459731165
• ISBN-10: 1459731166
• Artikelnr.: 41787891

Autorenporträt

Barbara Dickson is a sought-after motivational public speaker, local historian, and writer of fiction and periodical pieces. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword Preface 1 In the Beginning 2 A Frozen Field of
Dreams 3 A Mini City Tucked Behind an Eight-Foot Barbed-Wire Fence 4
Ramping Up 5 If You Can Walk, Talk, Creep, or Crawl - Apply Here! 6 A Day
in the Life of a Bomb Girl 7 It All Depends on Me 8 Safety First Because
Safety Lasts 9 Whistle While You Work: Industrial Relations and Personnel
10 Service with a Smile: Departments Serving Employees 11 Rolling Up Their
Sleeves: Departments Contributing to Munitions Production 12 Nothing Less
Will Do - Employee Morale 13 Disasters at the Plant 14 When "Victory"
Trumpets Sound the Call 15 If You Build It, Scarborough Will Come Appendix
A: Layout of GECO: An Engineer's Sketch of GECO Appendix B: GECO Management
Chart Appendix C: Typical Workshop Layout: Fuse 251, Shop 67C
Acknowledgements Notes
Bibliography Index
Dedication
To Those Women of All Ages
Foreword by Philip Hamilton
Preface<
Chapter One: In the Beginning Canada Declares War Wanted: One Mining
Company, No War Experience Necessary The Dynamic Duo Anticipation Swells
A.W.S.C. Project No. 24: Birth of a War Factory A Few Good Men Scarboro,
Ontario, Canada: Farms, Fillies, and Fuses The King's Speech Chapter Two: A
Frozen Field of Dreams Dead in the Water Turning of the Sod - with a Little
Help from some TNT Loose Lips Sink Ships The Gunpowder Plot Needed: 2,500
Good, Strong Men Hitler's Fate Sealed Chapter Three: A Mini-City Tucked
Behind an Eight-Foot Barbed-Wire Fence Taking Sides Give Me a "U"! Pick a
Number, Any Number What Lies Beneath Life Happens: A Change of Plans Can We
Talk? There is No "I" in "Team" A Squeaky Wheel Gets an Earful When All is
Said and Done: Feeds and Speeds of a Top Secret Munitions Factory Chapter
Four: Ramping Up Talk Is Cheap: Bring on the High Explosives Glitches,
Hitches, and Snags The Girls Behind the Boys Behind the Guns Chapter Five:
If You Can Walk, Talk, Creep, or Crawl - Apply Here! It's in Their Blood
Working in a Man's World War, Ammo, and Feminine Pads GECO's Bomb Girls
Chapter Six: A Day in the Life of a Bomb Girl All Aboard I Do Solemnly
Declare ... First Things First: Ground Rules Please Check your Brassiere
Features of GECO Change Houses A "Harmless" Pack of Matches Non-explosive
Uniforms An Ode to Ye Olde Shift House Working on the "Clean Side" Where's
the Beef? At Day's End Paying Tribute to the Girls Chapter Seven: It All
Depends on Me GECO Gals On the Dirty Side Mum's the Word: Dorothy Cheesman
Too Young to Fill: Elizabeth Ellis A Star Is Born: Helen Fraser A Run-In
with the Boss: Barbara Holmes Chief Dietitian and "Guiding Genius":
Florence Ignatieff On the Clean Side Don't Drop that Det!: Molly Danniels
"Truckerette": Hilda Keast Yellow Canary: Carol LeCappelain For the Love of
her Country: Helen Leslie A Woman of Sorrow: Peggy MacKay Bench Leader:
Norma McGregor Breath of Fresh Ayr: Mary Plain "Fireball": Edith
Reay-Laidler "My Mom was My World": Doris Scott Widow with Five Children:
Winifred Stewart D.I.L. Gal: Rena Sweetman "I Want to Work with Munitions":
Anne Wilmot The Old Boys' Club On the Dirty Side Someone's Got to Pay the
Bills: William Howe Positively Electrifying: Hartley "Tony" French "Piston
Packin' Moma": Donald John MacDonald Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Roy
Robertson Keep on Truckin': Joe Sullivan The Sawdust Brigade A Name
Couldn't Sound Sweeter: Alex Licorice Waddell On the Cleanside "Hefty
Work": Peter Cranston It's a Bust: Harold Pfeiffer A Long Road to Peace:
Ernest Herbert Pickles All in the Family Mother and Daughter In-Laws: Hilda
and Dorothy Clements The Darnbrough Way: Walter, Rene, and Violet
Darnbrough General Delivery: John Everest and Family Truck 'Em and Fill
'Em: Sidney Ledson and Family Modern Misses: Margaret and Netti Neufeld
Snowed In: The Simerson Gals "Shamed Be He Who Thinks Evil of It": Roxaline
Wood and Family Without a Name Man Lays Down his Life on the Home Front
With our Deepest Gratitude I Wish to Remain Anonymous The Dynamic Duo:
Philip Dawson Prior and Robert McLean Prior Hamilton's Story The Bloody Red
Baron The Roaring Twenties The Thirties: Prelude to War A Son's Reflection:
Philip Hamilton John McLean Parsons Hamilton Chapter Eight: Safety First
because Safety Lasts Friend or Foe In Case of Explosion ... Life Expectancy
In Spotless Air Conditioned Shops Jack be Nimble Galleries and Vestibules
and Tunnels, Oh My! Death and Disfigurement Guns and Gum The Tetryl Dilemma
Conclusion Chapter Nine: Industrial Relations and Personnel Industrial
Relations: Whistle While You Work Personnel There's Got to Be a Better Way
Show Me the Money GECO and its Books of Many Colours One Hundred Percent
Club An Urgent Need - the Guns to Feed Chapter Ten: Departments Serving
Employees Medical: An Ounce of Prevention Food Services: Eat, Drink, and Be
Merry Uniforms: The Mechanical Laundry Mangle Transportation: When the
Rubber Hits the Road Chapter Eleven: The Men behind the Women: Departments
Contributing to Munitions Production Production Department: The Buck Stops
Here Planning and Records: A Juggling Act Just Where Do You Test
Explosives? An Explosive Conflict Quality Control: Impressing the Enemy
Shipping: We Got Ourselves a Convoy Research and Development: Safer,
Faster, Deadlier Purchasing: Axes, Apples, and Ammo Engineering General
Office: Ground Zero The Sawdust Brigade Other Departments: Smaller but Just
as Deadly Chapter Twelve: Nothing Less Will Do: Employee Morale The
Situation Room The GECO Diamond is their Badge GECO Fusilier: A Powder
Magazine A Young Canadian Died! Skuce's Goose A Little R&R Sing a Song of
Softball Bombs Away, Beautiful! Victory Gardens More Mistletoe and Less
Missile-Talk The Kids are Alright Big Business Unions Blood is Thicker than
Water I'm Making Bombs and Buying Bonds The Good Ol' Sally Ann Pennies from
Heaven Special Guests The Songs they Sing are Preludes to the Voices of the
Gun Every Fuse you Fill may Save a Life The Whispering Gallery Conclusion
Chapter Thirteen: Disasters at the Plant Snow Stranded Death at the Plant
Chapter Fourteen: We Won the War - Now What? Lay Down your Arms Thanks for
Your Faithful Service Wrapping Up By the Numbers Scarboro's Spoils of War
Production: Collateral Damage Total Production: From July 1941-July 1945
The Final Headcount It's in You to Give Bits and Pieces Chapter Fifteen: If
You Build it, Scarborough will Come Decontamination and Desensitization
Sheltering the Homeless Scarborough's "Golden Mile" of Industry Veil of
Secrecy Lifted Long Live Scarboro! Appendices A. Layout of GECO B. GECO
Management Organizational Chart Notes Bibliography Index