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A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War

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In A Bridge of Ships James Pritchard tells The tale of the hastily changing circumstances and forceful personalities that shaped government shipbuilding policy. He examines the ownership and expansion of the shipyards and the role of ship repairing, in addition to recruitment and training of the labour force. He also tells The tale of the struggle for steel and the growth of ancillary industries. Pritchard provides a definitive picture of Canada’s wartime ship production, assesses the price (more than $1.2 billion), and explains why such a huge effort left this sort of short-lived legacy. The tale of Canada’s shipbuilding industry is as astonishing as that of the nation’s wartime navy. The workforce of both expanded more than fifty times, yet the history of wartime shipbuilding continues to be virtually unknown. With the disappearance of the Canadian shipbuilding industry from both the land and memory, it’s time to recall and assess its contribution to Allied victory.

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