The other legacy of D-Day: A Canada that built stuff. So much stuff

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Open this photo in gallery: An employee of John Inglis Co. Ltd. and known as 'The Bren Gun Girl' poses with a finished Bren gun in the Bren gun plant in Toronto in 1941.Supplied On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we memorialize the sacrifice, in blood and lives, of the Canadians who liberated Europe. Largely forgotten, however, are the economic, technical and industrial achievements that made victory possible – how Canadian business retooled, innovated and threw up new factories overnight, and the mind-boggling quantities of stuff they churned out. Canada didn’t just clothe, feed, equip and arm the more than...