My grandmother is 95 next month and lives in a assisted retirement community. I do her shopping for her each week and always stay for lunch and conversation. Yesterday she surprised me with a detail of her life I knew nothing about. When she left the family farm to go to work in Toronto (1940ish) she and schoolmate got jobs in the John Ingles factory making guns for the war effort. I asked what she did and she said "she made the little guns, her job was to align a piece by eye to be straight" ? Grandmas mind is very good for her age but I don't think she ever really knew what she was aligning in the 40's. So I'm curious as to what gun she may have had a hand in creating. My google fu leads me to believe it to be the hi power or possibly a part of the bren before assembly? Either way I found it interesting that my granny was part of the manufacturing process for the firearms that kept are boys safe.
Grandmas suprise!
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+ 1 to the post by LeeEnfield. My Grandmother is 90 and I know that she was educated and sent in 1942 till the end of the war to help draft roads in Munich, lucky, having come from Ukraine, while my grandfather was a surgeon for Officers at an internment camp somewhere in Germany. They both escaped in 45 and were given passage on a troop ship coming back to Canada by a couple soldiers who gave their passes, since they wanted to stay in France/England.
