Louise Johnson describes how she met her husband at Defence Industries Limited.

My husband was in the 4F catagory. He had vericose veins in his legs and bad circulation I guess and he couldn't pass the physical. So he was very disappointed when his friends went off to war and he was left behind and he was working at the time that they were employing people here he was working on friut farms in the Niagara District and he came to work at Ajax and I'm not exactly sure when. I was working on line 3 and I got a transfer to line 1 and then I was weighing cordite in 116 and that cordite was just little bitty stuff and it came into our section in a metal container and this man wheeled it in from something called the cordite house which was completely separate from the line. He had to bring it along a catwalk and wheel it in and dump it into a bin so that the weighers could get it out of there. So we didn't reach in with our hands. What did we use? I think we used some kind of a scoop and scooped it out and put it in the little weighing dish until we got it exactly right and then slipped it down and the girls would put it into the 40 millimeter casings and the man who was wheeling the cordite in was Russell Johnson and I was weighing so it wasn't a big problem for him to sort of pause from the time he dumped the cordite into the container that I was dipping it out of, it wasn't impossible for him to stop and exchange the time of day before he left and eventually we were married in 1943 and he... I'm sorry we met in 43 we were married in 1944. It wsas in 1943 that I first met Russell.