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Wren Writer M. McDonald of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) working in the navigation library at H.M.C.S. KINGS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 3 March 1943.

Wren Writer M. McDonald of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) arranging navigation books in the library at H.M.C.S. KINGS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 3 March 1943.

Wren Gibbs (centre) of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) delivering a message to the minesweeper H.M.C.S. ESQUIMALT, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2 February 1943.

Workmen at the John Inglis Co. Bren gun plant line up to be served by women workers at the cafeteria.

Women of Canada: Get Ready to Register

Women in Industry

Women cafeteria workers serve male workers at the Cherrier bomb-making plant.

Women Arrive for Work at a Factory in Edmonton, September 1943

This booklet was intended to provide information and spark debate about the changing place of women in society as a result of the Second World War.

Woman worker operates a machine at the Dominion Arsenals Ltd. plant in front of a statue of the Sacred Heart.