The “girls” were all volunteers, including the daughter of the John Inglis Company’s owner and several of her former schoolmates (my mother among them). Most of the almost 18,000 workers entered from King Street to the north of the plant, but these were early for a reason.Ĭradling infants, holding children’s hands, and draping sleeping toddlers across their shoulders, the parents entered the Coliseum and gave over the national treasure to the young women of the crèche. Inglis was running two 10-hour shifts a day, reserving the remaining four hours for maintenance and cleaning. When the accordion doors opened onto Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition grounds, a group of workers stepped down. The first of the morning shift arrived in darkness, announced by the steel-on-steel screech of streetcar brakes. ABOVE: 100,000 bears only this stamp and not the usual stack of serial numbers.Ī ceremony was scheduled for August 21, 1943, at the John Inglis Company.
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