She used to build things in this country

Ok, "Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl" is all over the net and she even has a Facebook page. I'm just reblogging the same pictures. But why not.
 Veronica Foster worked on the production line at John Inglis Co. making Bren Guns during WW2 . She was featured in a propaganda campaign and it's easy to see why, she has an appeal that reaches out across a half a century.

It would be easy to say she was the Canadian version of Rosie the Rivetter but the photos were taken in 1941, before the US had entered the war.
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Two unnamed workers with part of the Bren Gun production.

The Inglis plant at 9 Hanna St.- now demolished, the site occupied by a big new police station, part of the massive Liberty Village condo developments of the Inglis site.