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Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)
Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)

Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers, Wives, mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-f(...)

Date4/7/1943
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Original Toronto Star caption: Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers; Wives; mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-filling in Danforth technical school. Here are (LEFT to RIGHT); Mrs. Hedley Dollimore; mother of two whose husband is in the army at Camp Borden; Mrs. Christine Ramsey; an instructress at the classes; and Mrs. Harold Nash; who has a brother in the army and knits for the Red Cross in spare time.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0018979F
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      Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
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      Barkley, Harold
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      Bull, Ron
      8/1/1976
      For sale: Shell's Voice Message Service business is among company's high-tech holdings put on the auction block
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      Beaty, Keith
      3/16/1982
      Classes For Newcomers Even baby-sitting service will be provided for new Canadians as they learn English at classes set up through metro by the Ontario Department of Citizenship
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      Lennon, Frank
      9/26/1969
      Husbands, take home to your wives the new book for young mothers (and fathers too) : ''How we raised our baby'' (republished from the American copyright plates)
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      J. Ross Robertson
      1879
      War worker Jane Cox holds a carton of finished paper components for shells, ready to be shipped to a shell Plant
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      James, Norman
      3/16/1944
      The voyager's companion, or, Shell collector's pilot : with instructions and directions where to find the finest shells : also for preserving the skins of animals and the best methods of catching and preserving insects, &c. &c. &c.
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      Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
      1825
      Mrs. Robert Nixon, most active of all the wives in politics, has twice been campaign manager for her husband
      Mrs. Robert Nixon, most active of all the wives in politics, has twice been campaign manager for her husband
      Nixon, Robert F., 1928-
      6/27/1964
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      Smith, Strathy
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      Big gun ejects shells as Chinese Nationalist troops keep up desperate fight against Communist attackers who today are locked in an all-out fight north(...)
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      Taiwan. Armed Forces
      12/4/1948
      Adly projectiles. At the Right shells which have passed the inspection line are painted and will be shipped when dry. The copper band near the base of(...)
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7/6/1940