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r. t. h' (5 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN CITY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1999 C7 3 Philanthropist receives Ottawa's highest honour Dave Smith given key 4 to the city By Dave Rogers Even while he was receiving the key to the city from Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson yesterday, Dave Smith could 'I tSV irr n't help making a pitch for his newest charities, a kidney research centre and a fundraiser for childhood arthritis. The 66-year-old owner of Nate's and the Place Next Door on Rideau Street said he decided to raise $3 million for a kidney research centre after m. 1 0 'It the city is the highest honour Ottawa bestows on its citizens or former citizens.

Past recipients include Lorne Greene, Paul Anka, Rich Little, Marc Garneau, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Alanis Morissette and Peter Mansbridge. Raised on St. Patrick Street in Ottawa, Mr. Smith said sharing was a way of life for his family. "When I was growing up in a family of 13 my mother came home one night without her coat," Mr.

Smith said. "All she said was that someone else needed it more than she did. "My father said you can live on one slice of bread and you should share that slice. If we didn't share we wouldn't have survived." Mr. Smith has raised millions of dollars for charity since 1964.

In 1993 he founded the David Smith Centre, a youth drug and alcohol treatment centre in Ottawa. In 1995 Mr. Smith proposed Save our Native Grandchildren, a national fundraising program to build a sports centre in Davis Inlet, Labrador, an Innu community, which was battling an epidemic of gasoline sniffing among young people. Over the years, he's hosted various fundraising events, including an auction for a theatre in Morrisburg and another for monks in Tibet, a telethon for cancer research and one for seniors in Renfrew. 0 a doctor invited him to the Ottawa Hospital's General campus three months ago to see how many children need dialysis.

"I just had to leave after seeing it I had no idea so many children require kidney dialysis." Mr. Smith said after he received the key to the city at Ottawa City Hall. "When I asked him BRUNO SCHLUMBERGER, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Irene Fedell stands near a Hawker Hurricane, one of the planes she helped build during the Second World War, at the National Aviation Museum recently. Mrs. Fedell is featured in a National Film Board Film, Rosies of the North, which will air on the History Channel today.

'We were breaking new ground' about research, he shrugged his shoulders. It was then that I decided that we have to have a kidney research centre for children." Mr. Smith said he is planning a country music concert at the Civic Centre on Feb. 19 to raise money for research on childhood arthritis. First presented by former Mayor Charlotte Whitton in 1951, the key to A new film helped Irene Fedell remember the gritty reality of her job assembling aircraft during the Second World War.

Dave Rogers reports. Canadian Car hired Canada's first female engineering graduate, Elsie MacGill, in 1938. Trained as an aircraft designer, Ms. MacGill became a wartime heroine of the American comic book Rosie the Riveter. The film examines Ms.

MacGill's rapid rise to become one of Canada's most important war workers, and her mysterious dismissal. During the 1960s she was a key leader in the women's movement, working on the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. James Carmichael, an engineer who worked on the ill-fated Avro Arrow, said most people were happy to have women help meet production deadlines, but the presence of thousands of them upset some who weren't used to seeing women at work. "I don't think that women or men who worked in the war effort have had V- than 4,000 women in a factory with 7,500 workers built 1,400 Hurricanes, for the British and Russians, and 800 Curtis Helldiver carrier-based fighters for the US. Navy.

While wartime documentary clips in the film say that the work was "as easy as pie" and that light-aircraft metals were particularly suited to women, Mrs. Fedell said the reality was choking smoke from welding torches, nau- 'It would be good for (young people) to see that their mothers and sisters could do anything if they put their minds to Irene Fedell Leaning against the wing of a Hawker Hurricane like the ones she helped build during the Second World War, Irene Fedell recalls the morning she mischievously welded her male supervisor's lunch pail to an I-beam. The feisty Mrs. Fedell, 79, was 18 when she began assembling Hurricanes for the Royal Air Force at the Canadian Car factory in Fort William, now Thunder Bay. Britain badly needed more fighter aircraft because so many were shot down during the Battle of Britain.

The only way to build them was to hire thousands of female riveters, welders and fabric workers. That often meant the silent treatment on shop floors and resentment from male workers who had never seen a woman in a plant. "I welded everything in this plane," Mrs. Fedell said, pointing proudly to the wing, fuselage and tail "But at 4:30 in the morning this one supervisor would push us around. "I told the others to make sure he was in the assembly area for a long time, and while he was gone I welded a bead around his lunch pail.

He did three somersaults trying to get it off and never knew what happened. We never had any trouble from him again." Mrs. Fedell, who still lives in Thunder Bay, and some of her co-workers are featured in the National Film Board documentary, Rosies of the North, which is to be broadcast on History Television today at 5 p.m. Some of the women who worked in the factory joined 150 veterans to watch the film's premiere at the National Aviation Museum Monday. The documentary shows how more ill enough recognition," Mr.

Carmichael said. "Canada was reborn industrially during the war. We had more people making war material than there were in the armed forces and one third of them were women." Mr. Carmichael said Ms. MacGill walked onto the shop floor one night when she heard that a cat had accidentally become trapped in the wing of a Hurricane while the plane was assembled.

"She stomped onto the floor because she walked with a cane after a bout of polio," Mr. Carmichael said. "She ordered them to undo the wing and let the cat out. "The workers did it, but they hated her for it afterwards. They would have seating fumes and constant noise.

"When I saw the film, it brought back beautiful memories, sad memories," Mrs. Fedell said. "We did it because the men were fighting, but we had a sense that we were breaking new ground. "It is hard for young people today to imagine what it was like. It would be good for them to see that their mothers and sisters could do anything if they put their minds to it.

Since the war, women have become accountants, engineers, real-estate agents and other things they never did before." The Canadian-built Hurricanes were used in the Battle of Britain, in North Africa and in Russia on the Eastern Front. The Helldivers operated from American aircraft carriers during the war in the Pacific. WAYNE CUDDINGTON, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Businessman and fundraiser Dave Smith was honoured yesterday with a key to the city from Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson. left the cat the wing." After the war Mrs. Fedell and other female munitions workers had to give up their jobs to returning veterans.

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