Hilda and Eileen Barnett with Co-Workers at Brunton Lumber Co., 1945
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photograph showing Hilda and Eileen Barnett with co-workers at the Brunton Lumber Company. These women were hired to produce ammunition boxes during the Second World War.
- Notes
- The Brunton Lumber Company was built at Whitby Harbor in 1941. The company manufactured ammunition boxes for Defense Industries Limited in Ajax during the Second World War. The company was sold to General Mills and was destroyed by fire 0n 8 February 1951.
- Date of Original
- 1945
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- A2023_004_001
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8513648418413 Longitude: -78.9233779907227
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- Donor
- Valerie Gierman
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Women at Brunton Lumber Company, 1945, Whitby Archives.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from original photograph. This is a digital copy.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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