Next month our speaker will be Barbara Dixon.  Barbara is an award-winning public speaker, historian, documentary film producer and writer who has entertained, educated, and enlightened audiences for over twenty-five years.  Barbara’s vision is to educate Canadians about the phenomenal work carried out by women across the nation whose invaluable contribution helped win the Second World War.   She is committed to ensuring that Canada’s ‘bomb girls’ are honoured and commemorated by fellow Canadians and has authored 2 books on this subject:

‘Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo’ is a comprehensive, historical record of Canada’s biggest WWII munitions plant (“GECO”) employing over 21,000 citizens predominantly women, who courageously worked with high explosives around the clock over its four-year history.  The book offers a unique, intimate, and extraordinary glimpse into the lives and hearts of these dedicated Canadians. In-person interviews with the women who risked their lives every time they stepped onto the “clean side” of the plant lend a personal, distinctive perspective to the book.

‘Bomb Girls: United for Peace’ recounts one hundred and one never-before-told biographies garnered from rare one-on-one interviews with surviving bomb girls or from painstaking research provided by family members, company documents, government records and archival fonds.   From domestic abuse to miscarriages, from murder to meeting royalty, the book offers a culturally-rich, one-of-a-kind resource that will appeal to women of all ages, students, educators, historians, and World War II aficionados.

Barbara will share these unique stories with us at our next meeting

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