Munitions Production at Defence Industries Limited Factories National Historic Event

Ajax, Ontario
Male and female workers leaving the Cherrier plant of the Defence Industries Limited to board passenger trains. June 1944 © Harry Rowed / Office national du film du Canada. Photothèque / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada
Male, female workers leaving Cherrier plant 1944
© Harry Rowed / Office national du film du Canada. Photothèque / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada
Women at Defence Industries, Ltd., Montreal, Que., bundling cordite for a naval shell. June 1944 © Harry Rowed / Office national du film du Canada. Photothèque / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada | National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / PA-116926Workmen stirring chemicals used in the manufacture of warheads in the Cherrier or Bouchard plants of the Defense Industries Limited. July 1944 © Harry Rowed / Office national du film du Canada. Photothèque / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives CanadaMale and female workers leaving the Cherrier plant of the Defence Industries Limited to board passenger trains. June 1944 © Harry Rowed / Office national du film du Canada. Photothèque / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada
Address : Ajax, Ontario

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 2024-08-13
Dates:
  • 1939 to 1945 (Significant)

Other Name(s):
  • Munitions Production at Defence Industries Limited Factories  (Designation Name)
  • Defence Industries Limited (DIL)  (Other Name)
Research Report Number: 2017-23, 2017-23-A, 2023-38, 2023-38-A, 2023-38-B

Importance: Production of a massive arsenal of ammunition and its components, a major contribution to Canada’s war effort in the Second World War and in Allied victory, but also leading to long-term environmental contamination at many sites