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Join author Barbara Dicksonas she speaks about her book Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo, a comprehensive, historical record of Canada’s biggest WWII munitions plant (“GECO”) employing over 21,000 citizens, predominantly women, who courageously...

Join author Barbara Dickson as she speaks about her book Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo, a comprehensive, historical record of Canada’s biggest WWII munitions plant (“GECO”) employing over 21,000 citizens, predominantly women, who courageously worked with high explosives around the clock over its four year history. 

The book offers a unique, intimate, and extraordinary glimpse into the lives and hearts of these dedicated Canadians. In-person interviews with the women who risked their lives every time they stepped onto the “clean side” of the plant lend a personal, distinctive perspective to the book. 

Their stories reveal tenacity, dedication, patriotism, and resolve in a time when the concept of women working outside the home was a cultural anomaly. Bomb Girls captures, in a dramatic way, the dangerous work these brave young women performed. It’s imperative to pass along their enduring legacy to the generations to come. 

All talks take place at the Scugog Shores Heritage Centre & Archives, 1655 Reach Street, Port Perry (inside the Scugog Arena) and start at 1:00 pm.  Admission is $10/person and includes entry to the exhibit gallery

For more information please contact Shannon at museum@scugog.ca or 905-985-8698 x 103.