Women in Blue Keep 24 Hour Watch Over North Atlantic
The Royal Canadian Air Force recruits Women Division clerks to man secret operations rooms along Eastern Canada. They track allied and axis vessels, aircraft, and submarines via maps and telephones, coordinating with Aircraft Detection Corps. Training is strict and secrecy enforced, with many women serving essential roles in convoy and defense operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odicer & L. Tilley
RCAF
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
North Atlantic
Newfoundland and
Labrador
Air Force
R.c.af
Air Staff
Eastern Air Command
R.C.A
Rc.a.f
Aircraft Detection Corps
Navy
Army
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Quebec
Maritimes
Rlc.a.f
Rc.af
Jeanne Robertson
Toronto
Lois Husby
Gibson's Landing
B.C
Hilda Finley
Chilliwack
Promised by science for everyday use items
A Brandon Sun excerpt notes marvels such as unbreakable glass, breathable shoes, and plastic cars achieving 30 to 50 miles per gallon. It contrasts joyous future vistas with worries about toothache, sleepy high school boys, and wives demanding explanations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exen Meader
Brandon Sun
Set Objective Drives 30,000 New Canadian Women Recruits
The three services aim to enlist about 30,000 more Canadian women in 1943 to wear the King's uniform. Total now around 20,000: 10,000 in the air force, 9,000 in the army, 1,000 in the navy. Targets are 25,000 army women, 20,000 air women, and 5,000 naval women by year’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Canadian Women's Army Corps
R.C.A.F
Royal Canadian Women's Naval Service
Air Force
Army
Navy
British high school teaches driving as part of curriculum
An English principal trains boys to drive on a home made test ground with signals and roads next to the school. After instruction, boys take turns driving with a second boy directing. Learners must display an L plate to warn other drivers. The piece comments on minimal driving instruction in Britain. The Tunisian dervish swallows live scorpions to attain holiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
British Isles
St. Thomas Times- Journal
Public Health Personnel Shortage Spurs Survey Across Canada
Dr J J Heagerty warns staffing gaps in provinces from Nova Scotia to Alberta risk outbreaks as war demand drains doctors nurses and health workers. A national survey by The Canadian Medical Procurement and Assignment Board will assess minimum essential personnel and consider preserving frontline posts with special identification.
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Ottawa
Canada
J. J. Heagerty
Department of Pensions and National Health
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Fred Jackson
Winnipeg
Manitoba
John Phair
Toronto
Ontario Department of Health
Nova Scotias
Heagerty
Rockfeller Foundation
Halifax
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Dominion
Vancouver
U.S
Orient
San Francisco
Rocky Mountain
Public Health Department
Dr. Hengerty
Pre-War Memory Reflections From German-Occupied Holland
A traveller in Madrid reports Holland under occupation offers little food. He notes meals in Amsterdam Rotterdam and The Hague cost about 12 50 with liquor at 15 and a chicken for 30. Locals cheer Allied bombings and save bones for soup and scraps for sandwiches, a grim prewar memory.
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Holland
Madrid
Lisbon
Amsterdam
Hague
Rotter‘dam
Print Animals On A Baby Quilt Pattern 7495
A thrift craft note for a baby quilt featuring print animals like chicks and bunnies. Details include Block Chart pattern pieces quilt directions yardage and an illustration. pattern 7495 can be obtained by sending twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Manitoba with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
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Caneda
United Nations
Trousseau
Francis X. Jennings
The
Saint John Telegraph-Journal
Evening Times- Globe
Directorate of Information
G. Herbert Sallans
Banff
Canadian Pacific
Banff National Park
Bani
Stoney Indian Reserve
Morley
Alice Brooks
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