Women at Canadian National Railways rise in wartime roles
The Canadian National Railways employ more women in the mechanical and motive power departments, especially in the Western Region, replacing men who joined the armed forces. Women work as coach cleaners, laborers, and engine watchmen in Regina Saskatoon Prince Rupert Vancouver and Pacific. Supervisors praise the tidy, trained presence while strict limits ensure tasks stay within wear capabilities.
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Canadian National Railways
Ben
Regina
Saskatoon
Prince Rupert
Vancouver
Pacific
Price Rupert
Maborer
Jasper
E. R. Baitley
Ita
Canadea National Railways
London University Coeducational Summer School Organized
London University has organized a two group co-educational summer school to fit into eight days of leave for service personnel and allied staff overseas. Lectures run in the morning with visits to the Law Courts and Royal Academy in the afternoon. Canadians Americans Poles and Czechs attended a recent course. The program is mainly for Dominion and Allied personnel but also open to UK service men and women.
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Lacomver School
Hes Dondnica
London Univesity
Law Courts
Royal Academy
Foles
United Kingdom
Beau Jonathan in a Storm at Knowles Tavern
In 1675 England Jonathan Hale, homeward bound from Southampton, seeks shelter at Knowles Tavern as a storm erupts. He notices Mistress Jamieson, a stunning noblewoman, and contemplates life in America with Faith Meade while a bold lord confronts Anne Jamieson, hinting at a perilous, tangled encounter.
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Winnget
Jonathan Hale
Young Hale
Knowles
Jonathan
Winnset
Hale
Anne
Estelle
Denys
Thomas Hale
Faith Meade
England
High Seas
Faith
America
Southampton
London
Grandfather Hale
Sodom
Gomorra
Miss Jamieson
Mistress Jamieson
Mistresa Jamieson
Charies II
Monsieur Denys
Mistress Anne
Anne Jamieson
Sirrah
Your Boys And Girls On Active Service
Canadian service personnel across air force navy and land units are highlighted with reports of heroism training and readiness. Lt Commander Bill Dolmage and Walter Melvin of Webb Sask are noted for decisive actions. RCAF women sea and army links include pay raises for Wrens and recruits from Ontario Manitoba and BC. Navy figures and ship Huron praised. Strathroy surgeon Lt Campbell performs a sea cabin appendectomy. Six month theatre posting for northern service personnel announced with medical standards and vision criteria shaping rejections.
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Sicily
Kiska
Uie Air Force
Navy
British Columbia
Bill” Dolmage
Royal Canadian Navy
LAC
Walter Melvin
Webb, Sask
Vincent C. Mc.Cauley
Centreville
N.B
England
Dominion
St. Alice Trotter
Little Current
Ont
Jacqueline Paynter
Westbrook
B.C
Corps
Evelyn Harnseth
Kandaher
Sask
Royal Roads
Canadian Naval College
Vancouver Island
Thos
B. Hebbert
Vernon
D. C. Mather
Tuxedo
Manitoba
L. D. Brander
Wallaceburg
R. J. Dickinson
Comox
Sgt
Jim Frame
R.C.A.F
Senate
Jim
Gordon Bennett
Winnipeg
Ruhr
Johnny Loaring
R.C.N.V R
H.M.S
Fiji
Crete
Jondeen
Johnny
Windsor
Canada
William J. McKay
R.C.N.V.R
Rothesay
R.C.N
Strathroy
B. A. Campbell
Strathroy Hospital
John Willams
R.C. ‘Alr
Port Dover
Jarvis
United Nations
U-boata
George Hill
D.F.C
Bar
Picton
N.8
M. S&s. Zimmerman
Preston
Con. Rogers
Amherst
Johnny Johnstone
Selkirk
Man
George Keith
Tabor
Clinton
Norwegian Women To Britain To Find Refuge
More than a thousand Norwegian women fled to Britain after Germany overran Norway in 1940. They entered wartime roles with help from a Norwegian Government in Great Britain plan offering training for nursing ambulance and truck driving office kitchen and mess work. Some receive full army training.
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Norway
Britain
Great Britain
Norwegian Women's Auxiliary Corps
Lend Lease Supplies to British Forces Expand
U S forces in Great Britain receive a wide range of aid under Lend Lease including bombs shells ammunition anti tank mines Spitfires and large food stocks from Britain. All charges are listed as Lend Lease in reverse against U S Army ration accounts.
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U.S
Great Britain
Unclear text fragment hints at honors for overseas service
Fragmentary notes mention overseas duty and medals or rings and a new series titled services gossip. Details are unreadable, but imply recognition of service and a decorative badge on the left breast. No clear names, dates, places, or organizations are readable.
Post War Plans Spark Debate On Labour Hours And Wages
W L Clark argues in the Windsor Star that post war problems linger as legislation attempts to fix employment hours and wages. Plans for a two hour day and six hour week provoke skepticism among theorists who favor parliamentary action over practical measures by people.
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W. L. Clark
The
Windsor Star
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ROYAL
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London University
Beau Jonathan
J.b.ryan
International Red Cross
Pritoria of War
W. C. MacDonald Inc
P. O. Box
Place d’Armes
Montreal
China
Danny Yee Clun
Danny
Chinese War Relief Fund
BOW Lend-Lease Works
J. B. Ryan
Teena
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