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Alex Mulgrove (Primary Source)
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Alex Mulgrove (Primary Source)

Alex Mulgrove served in the navy during the Second World War. Read and listen to Alex Mulgroves’s testimony below. 

 

Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada. 

Alex Polowin (Primary Source)
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Alex Polowin (Primary Source)

Alex Polowin was a Lithuanian-Jewish Canadian who served in the Royal Canadian Navy on HMCS Huron, a Tribal class destroyer. Polowin escorted convoys to Murmasnk to supply the Soviets, hunted down the battleship Scharnhorst, and supported the amphibious invasion of Normandy in 1944. Listen to Polowin describe his motivations for enlisting in the Navy and the operations in which he took part.

Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.

Wendell Harper (Primary Source)
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Wendell Harper (Primary Source)

Wendell Harper served as a wireless operator  in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. 

Content warning: This article contains content which some may find offensive or disturbing.

Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.

Stella Katherine Barter (neé Zarowny) (Primary Source)
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Stella Katherine Barter (neé Zarowny) (Primary Source)

Stella Barter (née Zarowny) served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women’s Division as a typist during the Second World War. 

Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.

Gordon Sidney Harrington
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Gordon Sidney Harrington

Gordon Sidney Harrington, labour lawyer, military officer (colonel), politician, premier of Nova Scotia (born 7 August 1883 in Halifax, NS; died 4 July 1943 in Halifax, NS). Educated at Dalhousie University, Harrington practised law in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. During the First World War, he served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force from 1915–17, and with the Overseas Military Forces of Canada from 1917–20. After the war, he became an MLA for Cape Breton Centre in 1925. He succeeded Edgar N. Rhodes as premier of Nova Scotia in 1930. However, with the onset of the Great Depression, Harrington and the Conservatives were defeated just three years later by the Liberals in 1933. Harrington remained an MLA for Cape Breton South until 1937. A skillful administrator, Harrington’s legacy includes his instrumental involvement in the repatriation of Canadian soldiers after the First World War and his role in ending labour disputes in the Cape Breton mining industry.

Stella Pierce (née Denton) (Primary Source)
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Stella Pierce (née Denton) (Primary Source)

Stella Pierce served as a meteorological assistant in the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War

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Sytske Drijber Brandsma (Primary Source)
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Sytske Drijber Brandsma (Primary Source)

Sytske Drijber Brandsma served with the Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger (KNIL) (The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) during the Second World War.

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Ruby Boersma (Primary Source)
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Ruby Boersma (Primary Source)

Ruby Boersma recounts her experiences as a child passenger on board the SS ATHENIA, a ship that was torpedoed on the first day of the Second World War, 3 September 1939. She describes where she was on board the ship, how she managed to get on a life boat, the conditions on board the life boat, and her ultimate rescue and return to Canada.

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Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.


RCAF Flyers
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RCAF Flyers

The RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) Flyers was a men’s amateur hockey team comprised mostly of RCAF personnel that was assembled quickly to represent Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics. After losing exhibition games in Canada, the media declared the team a national embarrassment. Several roster changes improved the team and it won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Andrew Mynarski
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Andrew Mynarski

Andrew Charles Mynarski, Royal Canadian Air Force pilot officer, Victoria Cross recipient (born 14 October 1916 in Winnipeg, MB; died 13 June 1944 in Cambrai, France). Mynarksi served as a gunner on bomber aircraft during the Second World War. While on a mission on 12 June 1944, his plane was attacked and on fire when, rather than jumping to safety, he ran through flames to try to rescue his fellow crewmember who was trapped in the rear gun turret. Unable to extricate his friend, Mynarski parachuted safely to the ground but later died due to severe burns. His bravery earned him many posthumous commendations, including the Victoria Cross.

Ruth Harrison (Primary Source)
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Ruth Harrison (Primary Source)

Ruth Harrison served as a Nursing Sister during the Second World War. 

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Sam Doggart (Primary Source)
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Sam Doggart (Primary Source)

Sam Doggart served in the Canadian Armoured Corps during the Second World War. 

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Sadie Watts (Primary Source)
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Sadie Watts (Primary Source)

Sadie Watts served in the Canadian Women's Army Corps during the Second World War.

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Ruth Felicity St. Clair Jarvis (Primary Source)
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Ruth Felicity St. Clair Jarvis (Primary Source)

Ruth St. Clair (née Jarvis) served as a WREN in the British Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War. 

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Ruth Masters (Primary Source)
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Ruth Masters (Primary Source)

Ruth Masters served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division during the Second World War. She was stationed at RCAF Station Uplands in Ottawa before being posted to Britain.

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Ruth Bergstrom (Primary Source)
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Ruth Bergstrom (Primary Source)

In the summer of 1942, Ruth Bergstrom joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) and was a member of the first group of CWACs trained at Vermilion, Alberta. She was then posted to National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario in a clerical position at Headquarters, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. By the end of the Second World War, she ended up as staff sergeant in the classified message centre.

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Ruth Werbin (Primary Source)
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Ruth Werbin (Primary Source)

 Ruth Werbin was a WREN, serving in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War. 

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Ruth McMillan (Primary Source)
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Ruth McMillan (Primary Source)

Ruth McMillan served in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War. 

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Ruth Kinread Lewis (Primary Source)
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Ruth Kinread Lewis (Primary Source)

During the Second World War, Ruth Kinread went to Nova Scotia to work for a company that supplied Navy ships. 

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