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Editor: Dominic Farrell

Copy editor: Britanie Wilson

Design: BJ Weckerle

Cover Design: Sarah Beaudin

Cover Image: Female GECO war workers prepare fuses for shipping (AO1593, fonds F2082-1-2-24). Courtesy of Archives of Ontario.

Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Dickson, Barbara, 1961-, author

Bomb girls : trading aprons for ammo / Barbara Dickson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-3116-5 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3117-2 (pdf.).--

ISBN 978-1-4597-3118-9 (epub)

1. World War, 1939-1945--Women--Canada. 2. World War,

1939-1945--War work--Canada. 3. Women in war--Canada--History--

20th century. 4. Weapons industry--Canada--History--20th century.

I. Title.

D810.W7D52 2015 940.53082’0971 C2015-902081-6

C2015-902082-4

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