Women in RCAF Watch North Atlantic Submarines
The Women's Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force operates secret 24 hour Atlantic coast operations rooms to track Axis submarines and Allied convoy movements. RCAF clerks connect via secret lines to Aircraft Detection Corps observers from Labrador to Newfoundland and the Maritimes, providing real time reports and guiding naval, army, and air responses.
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L. Tilbey
RCAF
Canada
North Atlantic
Royal Canadian Air Perce
Fastern
Newfoundland and Labrador
Subron
Air Force
R.C.A.F
R C.af
Air Staff
Eastern Air Command
Aircraft Detection Corps
Navy
Army
Atlantic
Labrador
Newfoundland
Quebec
Maritimes
Roy Canadian Air Force
Rc.af
Royal Canadian Air Force
Jeanne Robertson
Toronto
Lois Husby
Gibson’s Landing
B.C
Hilda Finley
Chilliwack
Not All Joy in Promised Scientific Marvels
A playful critique notes imperfect future comforts such as unpunctuated gadgets, tough toothpaste, and stubborn habits. The author mocks unattainable utopian promises while highlighting ordinary frictions like late nights, morning grogginess, and wives seeking explanations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Canada sets 1943 targets for 50,000 women in King's uniform
Canada's three armed services aim to raise total women in uniform to about 50,000 by year end 1943. They expect roughly 30,000 new recruits, with the Canadian Women's Army Corps, the RCAF Women's Division, and the Royal Canadian Navy Women's Service expanding from about 20,000 now. The plan envisions army women near 25,000, airwomen about 20,000, and naval women around 5,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Canadian Women's Army Corps
R.C.A.F
Royal Canadian Women's Naval Service
Air Force
Army
Navy
Principal's driving training for teens stirs controversy
A Ontario high school principal teaches teens to drive using a mock test ground with roads and signals to instill road safety. Learners get hands on practice with an accompanying student giving directions and a penalty swap system for mistakes. The report contrasts this with other nations where learner drivers use visible L plates and formal tests. A second item notes a Tunisian dervish consuming live scorpions for holiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Isles
St. Thomas
Public health personnel face wartime staffing crisis in Canada
Dr J J Heagerty warned most provinces run below required staffing for essential duties such as water testing, sanitary inspection and disease control. A national survey by the Canadian Medical Procurement and Assignment Board aims to determine absolute minimum needs and may spur protections like job freezes and distinctive uniforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
J. J. Heagerty
Department of Pensions and National Health
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Heagerty
Alberta
Public Health Committee
Canadian Medical Procurement and Assignment Board
Fred Jackson
Winnipeg
Manitoba
John Phair
Toronto
Ontario Department of Health
Nova Scotia
Rockfeller Foundation
Halifax
New Brunswick
Ontario
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Dominion
Vancouver
U.S
Orient
San Francisco
Rocky Mountain
Dr. Heagerty
Pre-War Memory of Dutch Rations Under German Occupation
A Madrid traveler describes Dutch life in wartime Holland as bleak with scarce meals. He notes Amsterdam The Hague and Rotterdam meals cost 12.50, liquor 15, a chicken 30, and bones saved for soup after meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Madrid
Lisbon
Amsterdam
Hague
Rotterdam
Print Animals On A Baby Quilt Pattern 7495
Thrifty Easter quilt idea features roly poly chicks and bunnies appliqued on blocks. Each animal uses a different print with a Block Chart, pattern papers, yardage, and directions in pattern 7495. Send twenty five cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Union for details and pattern 7495.
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Winnipeg
Unio
McDermot Avenue
Winniipeg
Man
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United Nations
Trousseau
Eien Motors Science
R.C.A.F. Operations Room
Francis X. Jennings
Saint John Telegraph-Journal
Evening Times Globe
Directorate of Information
G Herbert Sallans
Britain
Banff
Canadian Pacific
Banff National Park
Stoney Indian Reserve
Morley
Alice Brooks
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