City of Toronto All Events http://ift.tt/1TKBJvi During the Second World War, the Canadian government built a sprawling top secret munitions plant in the rural community of Scarborough. The plant, called GECO, comprised 346 acres, more than four kilometres of tunnels, and 172 buildings (all built in five months). On International Women's Day, hear historian Barbara Dickson, author of Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo, tell the true story of how 17,000 women worked around the clock for four years at the GECO munitions factory. Their stories reveal tenacity, dedication, patriotism, and resolve in a time when the concept of women working outside the home was a cultural anomaly.
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