The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint on watch faces in the early 1900s while employed by ...

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For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others trains or mermaids. For me it was rocks. I can pinpoint the moment exactly. I ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...