Veronica Foster

Veronica Foster

Veronica Foster (popularly known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl") was, along with Rosie the Riveter, a cultural icon of Canada, 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. [ [http://torontosun.com/Lifestyle/Columnists/Filey_Mike/2005/08/14/1172138.html All Aboard for the Future] , Toronto Star, August 14, 2005]

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. [ [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/war-industry/025010-2014-e.html#ppl9 Canadian War Industry during the Second World War] , Library and Archives Canada]

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ee also

*Rosie the Riveter


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