Our Remembrance Day speaker will be Historian and Author, Barbara Dickson, on the topic of "Bomb Girls."
Guest Speaker: Barbara Dickson, Historian and Author
Rotary Toronto's Remembrance Day Celebration
Honouring our Current and Past Veterans
Friday, November 5, 2021 at The National Club (Check in: 11:30 a.m.
Virtual Meeting Time: Members Segment Login Time: 12:00 Noon, Guests: 12:15pm to 1:15 PM -
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Topic: Bomb Girls!
Host: Club Past President Brian Westlake
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Biography:
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Barbara Dickson is a sought-after professionally-trained public speaker, local historian, and author in both fiction and non-fiction. She has been entertaining and educating audiences for over twenty years. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1992, Barbara re-discovered her love of writing and history when she retired from her career as an IT software analyst. Barb has spent many years researching local and Canadian history focusing her efforts on:
• Canadian history in the nineteenth century;
• Ireland’s Great Hunger;
• The invaluable contribution made by Canadian men and women engaged in war work during the Second World War.
Now an award-winning, best-selling, multi-published author and public speaker, Barb has been invited to appear before myriad organizations including remembrance celebrations, church groups, military gatherings, women’s organizations, business and local service clubs, and historical societies.
Topic 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.
Their stories reveal tenacity, dedication, patriotism, and resolve in a time when the concept of women working outside the home was a cultural anomaly. Bomb Girls captures, in a dramatic way, the dangerous work these brave young women performed. It’s imperative to pass along their enduring legacy to the generations to come.
Where can I purchase the book? Dundurn Press: ISBN-13: 978-1459731165
Website Info: www.barbaradickson.ca