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"I worked at Duplate for the first part of the war. We worked 10 hours a day and it was a 58 hour week. But we got two hours off on Saturday so we finished at 4:00pm" - Elmer Lewis
"My wife worked at Duplate during the war and cut out round pieces of glass for gas masks and prisms for tanks. I laminated the glass for gas masks." - Elmer Lewis
"Duplate made periscopes for submarines." - Oshawa Senior Citizens Centre
"My wife continued to work at Duplate, then the policy after the war was 'no jobs for married women'." - Elmer Lewis
"I worked in Duplate then went to Pedlar and then to GM(General Motors). Pedlar made casings for shells." -Elmer Lewis
"During the war I worked for DIL - Defense Industries Limited. DIL was a shell filling plant. In February 1940 the surveyors went in. They bought the farms by February 1941 and then we met with the contractors. We were in operation before the end of 1941. The plant went form 0-7000 employees in 6 months. The majority of the employees were women. Because they were working with explosives there were no cigarettes or matches allowed. Trainloads of girls came in to work from the East Coast. We had residences for both men and women set up. There were 17 residences for women with 100 in each residence." - Syd Hopkins
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