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And they were exposed to toxic materials and munitions. And the General Engineering Company of Canada, and that was Canada's biggest World War II munitions plant at the time, had around 21,000, maybe a little more than 21,000 employees. Most were women, predominantly most were women. And that plant was located in Scarborough, Ontario, I think it was. And their job ranged from assembling the bombs to actually packing the bombs with the explosive material, TNT, trinitrol-tululene. And that is toxic. And they were exposed to this toxic explosive. And so we had not only our radium girls, but we also had the radium bomb girls too that were working in highly hazardous conditions.