“…the home front should keep up the war front…”

When young soldiers were shipped off to fight in World War II there were not enough men left to fill the jobs they left behind.  Thousands of women in British Columbia went to work in these traditionally male jobs, even though many people thought the work was too difficult for them to perform.  One young woman, Thelma Godkin, found employment in the forest industry and became one of the first female loggers in the province.
 

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Image credit:   From the British Columbia Lumberman, November 1944, Vol. 28, No. 11