The Bombardier Co, of Valcourt, Quebec, built over 150 military snowmobiles. GM developed a frame for another snowmobile and built 300 of them.
Canadian shipyards starting building patrol vessels in 1940 to protect the coasts. Britain placed an order for twenty-six 10,000 ton cargo ships and then orders for naval escorts and minesweepers.
Before the war, Canada had three shipyards employing less than 4,000 men. At peak production during the war, there were 90 plants on the coasts, Great Lakes and even inland employing 126,000 men and women (Canadians had their own Rosie the Riveters).
All told, Canada built 4,047 naval vessels, 300 anti-submarine warships, 4 tribal-class destroyers and 410 cargo ships.
At the peak production in 1943, the 10,000 tons Fort Romaine ship was made in just 59 days start-to-finish.
Impressive Stats Indeed. --DaCoot
2 comments:
The amazing thing about North American production was that most of the bases, plants,yards etc, didn't exist before the war. If they did, they were only a fraction of the size that they became.
How did Canada ramp-up production in such a short time? It's amazing.
You always hear about the US production, but nothing about Canada's. It would make sense that production would increase there as well because it was not being bombed (but still had to worry about U-boats and Japanese submarines).
Earlier this year, I found about about Japanese-Canadian internment camps and didn't know about those either.
You learn something new all the time.
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