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Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)
Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)

Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-yea(...)

Date2/10/1943
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Original Toronto Star caption: Right on the nose is the salute Canadian grandmothers will give the dictators and there's 170 pounds of war energy behind this muscle flexed by 62-year-old grandmother Mary Beer who works nine-and-a-half hours daily in a war plant
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0019026F
      Mrs. M. E. Nicholson says, It will be hard to go back to housework after the war. Plant officials say of the grandmothers: They're better workers than(...)
      Mrs. M. E. Nicholson says, It will be hard to go back to housework after the war. Plant officials say of the grandmothers: They're better workers than(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/1/1943
      Small Arms Ltd., Long Branch, has 287 grandmothers among its war workers, and personnel heads say they're the best workers in the plant. Mrs. Almanda (...)
      Small Arms Ltd., Long Branch, has 287 grandmothers among its war workers, and personnel heads say they're the best workers in the plant. Mrs. Almanda (...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/1/1943
      Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
      Too bad Hitler's not here, lament these eight war-working grandmothers as they train Sten guns on the photographer's assistant. There are some seventy(...)
      James, Norman
      6/5/1943
      Rosemary Ayling helps her son Francis, 4, serve tea to his grandmothers Teresa Canaletti, left and Maureen Ayling, far right, and to his great-grandmo(...)
      Rosemary Ayling helps her son Francis, 4, serve tea to his grandmothers Teresa Canaletti, left and Maureen Ayling, far right, and to his great-grandmo(...)
      Talotta, Vince
      5/2/1997
      A silver salute. Len Smith, long time lacrosse man, celebrating 86th birthday, shows silver tray presented to him at Fleming home in thanks for 70 yea(...)
      A silver salute. Len Smith, long time lacrosse man, celebrating 86th birthday, shows silver tray presented to him at Fleming home in thanks for 70 yea(...)
      Barkley, Harold
      6/1/1970
      Silent partner: Don't look now, but there's somebody right behind you, painter John Hinds, left, seems to be saying to his colleague John Spanu as they take a lunch break at Exhibition Place
      Silent partner: Don't look now, but there's somebody right behind you, painter John Hinds, left, seems to be saying to his colleague John Spanu as they take a lunch break at Exhibition Place
      Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto, Ont.)
      8/11/1981
      The idler cured, or, Grandmother's lesson
      The idler cured, or, Grandmother's lesson
      Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
      1865
      The something old that Inez Newbold wore Friday when she married Kent Gawler of New Jersey was her grandmother's wedding gown. It was first worn by Mr(...)
      The something old that Inez Newbold wore Friday when she married Kent Gawler of New Jersey was her grandmother's wedding gown. It was first worn by Mr(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      7/17/1976
      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(...)
      Rutherford, George
      4/7/1943
      Grandma's best: Jams and jellies made from his grandmother's recipe are the hallmark of the store run by William Greaves Jr
      Grandma's best: Jams and jellies made from his grandmother's recipe are the hallmark of the store run by William Greaves Jr
      Brennan, Pat
      11/22/1982
      Her grandmother's on welfare, so is her mother, can she fight her way out
      Her grandmother's on welfare, so is her mother, can she fight her way out
      Spremo, Boris
      5/24/1978
      Clothes with personality: Ballet dancer Margaret Illmann loves romantic styles: like this favorite dress - her grandmother's remodelled lemon yellow debutante ball gown
      Clothes with personality: Ballet dancer Margaret Illmann loves romantic styles: like this favorite dress - her grandmother's remodelled lemon yellow debutante ball gown
      Illmann, Margaret
      12/6/1991