Veronica Foster
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"Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl" posing with a finished Bren gun
Veronica Foster, popularly known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl", was a Canadian icon representing nearly one million Canadian women who worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel during World War II. Foster worked for John Inglis Co. Ltd producing Bren light machine guns on a production line on Strachan Avenue in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She can be seen as the Canadian precursor[2] to the American fictional propaganda tool Rosie the Riveter.
She became popular after a series of propaganda posters were produced; most images featured her working for the war effort, but others depicted more casual settings like Foster dancing the jitterbug or attending a dinner party.[3]
References
- ↑ All Aboard for the Future, Toronto Star, August 14, 2005
- ↑ Online MIKAN no. 3195801 (1 item), retrieved Oct 27, 2012
- ↑ Canadian War Industry during the Second World War, Library and Archives Canada
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