In 1966, Dominion Textiles would close its doors, and in its place Eagle Toys (later Coleco) would occupy what is now the Chateau St-Ambroise. Eagle Toys manufactured several table top hockey games like this one:

Much like Dominion Textiles, the majority of the workers at Eagles Toys and Coleco were women (70%) and their average age was 23 (although many of them declared themselves 18, when they were in fact younger). These women were paid $1.69/h (min wage in 1971, under $10 in 2021)

These women (and a few men) had a new set of labor challenges ahead of them. While they were unionized, the workers of Coleco felt as if their union, la Fédération canadienne des associations indépendantes (FCAI), worked for their employers, not for them.

These women faced the compounded hardships of traditional gender roles imposed on them at home. Many of the workers had to deal with both domestic and factory labor. Moreover, women who worked while their husbands remained unemployed faced both societal stigma and marital strife.

Eagle Toys, Saint-Henri, Montréal, Québec - Paul Gaudard, 1971 (National Gallery of Canada)