Women Workers Join Canadian National Railway Ranks
The Canadian National Railways increase the number of women in roles once held by men in the Motive Power and Car Equipment Department. Over 80 women work in Western Region shops and roundhouses, replacing enlisted men, with assignments mainly as coach cleaners and a few as laborers and engine watchmen. Supervisors praise tidier, more disciplined shops.
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Canadian National Railways
Regina
Saskatoon
Prince Rupert
Vancouver
Pacifi
Pacific
Jasper
E. R Battley
Canadan National Railways
Canadian National Railways Press Services
London University Summer School Opens For Overseas Servicemen
London University has organized a co educational summer school to aid leave problems of serving men and women from overseas. Lectures run on university lines with mornings of classes and afternoons visiting the Law Courts and the Royal Academy. Canadians Americans Poles and Czechs attended the recent course and UK personnel are welcome.
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London
Thunderstorm at Winnset Draws Puritan Hope to Knowles
Jonathan Hale rides into Knowles Tavern as a storm rages over Winnset. He notices Mistress Jamieson, elegant from London, while a dramatic door scene reveals a rude lord wooing Anne Jamieson. The tale hints at looming peril as intrigue unfolds in a stormbound inn.
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Knowles
Jonathan
Winnset
Hale
Anne
Estelle
Denys
Thomas Hale
Faith Meade
Jonathan Hale
England
High Seas
Faith
America
Onathan Hale
Southampton
London
Grandfather Hale
Sodom
Gomorra
Miss Jamieson
Mistress Jamieson
Charles
Monsieur Denys
Anne Jamieson
Sirrah
Your Boys And Girls On Active Service
A long briefing highlights Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force members across Canada. Lt Commander Bill Dolmage reshapes salvage work while LAC Walter Melvin aids a refuelling blaze. Lt Cdr H R Rayner leads the destroyer Huron. Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta names appear among pilots, Wrens, and sailors, with home-front heroism noted and a six month theatre posting plan for fliers.
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Sicily
Kiska
Air Force
Navy
British Columbia
Bill Dolmage
Royal Canadian Navy
Lac
Walter Melvin
Webb, Sask
Vincent C. McCauley
Centreville
N.B
D.F.C
Wrens
R.C.A.F
England
Dominion
Alice Trotter
Little Current
Ont
Jacqueline Paynter
Westbrook
B.C
Corps
Evelyn Harnseth
Kandahar
Sask
Stoney
Jim Frame
Senate
Jim
Gordon Bennett
Winnipeg
Ruhr
Johnny Loaring
R.C. N.V.R
H.M.S
Fiji
Crete
London
Johnny
Windsor
Canada
William J. McKay
R.C.N.V.R
Rothesay
R.C.N
Strathroy
B. A. Campbell
Strathroy Hospital
John Williams
Port Dover
Jarvis
United Nations
SS. George Hill
D-F.c
Bar
Picton
N.S
Sgt
M. S. Zimmerman
Huron
Huron County
Cdr
H. R. Rayner
D.S.C
Clinton
Chinese pupil’s painting aids war relief drive funds
A 16 year old Regina Chinese boy Danny Yee Clun drew a powerful image reflecting China’s suffering and the aid hope it inspires. He offers the artwork as his contribution to the Chinese War Relief Fund urging donations through any chartered bank branch.
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Danny Yee Clun
Regina, Sask
China
Danny
Chinese War Relief Fund
Norwegian Women Form War Service Corps In Britain
More than a thousand Norwegian women fled to Britain after the 1940 German invasion. The Norwegian Government in Great Britain organized education for war work and the Norwegian Women's Auxiliary Corps grew from this, with training in nursing ambulance and truck driving office kitchen and canteen work plus some receiving full army training.
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Norway
Britain
Great Britain
Norwegian Women's Auxiliary Corps
How Lend Lease Works in U.S. Britain Supplies
U.S. forces in Great Britain receive bombs shells ammunition anti tank mines Spitfires and large food stocks from Britain to supplement U S Army rations all charged against Lend Lease in reverse.
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U.S
Great Britain
Sky warriors to wear double gold wings with O emblem
The overseas tour completion rule grants sky warriors outside Canada the right to wear on the left breast pocket new double gold wings centered by an operational O. This marks the end of the first column in a new series of services gossip.
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Sky Warriors
Canada
Post War Plans Spar Over Hours and Wages
W L Clark cites Windsor Star warnings that post war schemes to regulate hours and leisure may fail without genuine employment at reasonable wages. He argues legislation alone cannot create prosperity and warns theorists against replacing human effort with political acts.
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W. L. Clark
Windsor Star
Beau Jonathan by J. B. Ryan
A teaser notes Beau Jonathan by J. B. Ryan begins in this issue as readers are invited to start reading. The feature promises a dramatic tale with location and character hints to entice engagement.
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Beau Jonathan
J. B. Ryan
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