Hamilton, Ontario, March 1947 - Industrial/Mechanical space - On the Job: a century of Canadians at work - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
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Mary Giles, an assembly worker working on a Mantle Modern radio, Westinghouse Electrical Plant, Hamilton, Ontario, March 1947
Photographer: Bud Glunz
 PA-205829
In this cramped work-space, fellow workers are virtual mirror images of each other as they assemble radios. Radio audiences grew exponentially from 1920 and the war years saw the radio become an important tool of government communication. The introduction of television in 1952 led to the demise of the radio as the dominant mass medium in Canada.

 

 

 PA-205829

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