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Created in January 1942 to supply war materials to the Canadian military, the Port Alberni, British Columbia, plywood mill was a haven for women mill workers. Many of the women who worked at Alberni Plywoods moved to the Vancouver Island town from Canada's economically depressed Prairie Provinces. Although women comprised four-fifths of the mill's work force by January 1943, women were largely excluded from the skilled positions at the plant. A gender-based hierarchy remained in place throughout the war, with men in the supervisory and high-skill roles, and women concentrated in unskilled positions. After the war, the mill did not expel its female workforce, but it hired only males.