16 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW REMEMBRANCE DAY

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~ War changes everything.

. Governments rise and fall, nor-

“mally !aw-abiding citizens lay
down their hammers, shovels,
pens or other tools of peace to

1 pick up -rifles and bayonets.

- Bombs and trenches pull the
terrain apart.

Often, when people | think of
war, they remember the men
who fought-for our freedom,
but: women played their own
parts. In. the Second. World
War women put aside plans for
-marriage, home and children
to step into a uniform and take

~ on unfamiliar roles.
~-. Some of those, like Nancy: ~
Tyrwhitt-Drake, Eileen Gra-
ham; Joan Lindley and Helen
(Pooh)..Perodeau, all from the
- Peninsula,: volunteered. for
overseas duty, all working with
the Red Cross:
“T'was in the Red Cross i in
Winnipeg, working as.a_dri-
~~ ver,” said Lindley. “Later, in’44.
: and 45, I went over to England
~to‘bring.the wives and. chil-
dren, women who had married
~ Canadians during. the War,
back to: Canada.” She made
four trips back and forth across:
~~ those’ unpredictable Seas; all i in
: one year.
os -TyrwhittDrake joned the
im “Red Cross in Toronto, then ing”
Was sent to Europe to work
with the British Red Cross; as _ “The women recalled British

kitchens (“they all'seem to be.
os they wer te, caealy 8 hart aan in the basement”), ‘the humid-.

~ she shared ambulance-driving ‘ity, the cold and the fog. “Tused
~ duty with women from South, 18° to see my husband;who
Africa the British Red Cross “ “was stationed nearby, on week.
- and. Fannies (members of a. ends,” said’ Perodeau. “I re-.
oe -member. standing. on the plat.

~ “We drove to the airfields to” form: at the train station at
‘night more. than once. There.

. Surfing ;Services at ‘City Scribe,  ottering, laternet E-mail: |", pick up the wounded — all he black f
., instructional “assistance ‘and ‘demonstrations of, “LBN- Internet”. J) : done at night,” She said,:mat- ~ was the blackout, of course,
©1- through your TV, City Scribe prides itself on staying on “top of the. [°° ter-offactly.-“You gol Goad : and the fog so thick I got totally
= fechnology!".8 ‘and ‘is open’ Mon:'to Sat. 9 am. to 5 p.m. and is} ‘the landmarks ... wouldn't disoriented, ” m a
a . erodeau, who went to ng-
tang the a ca duringthe day" land: in 1943, said: she was.
~ ambulance: driver, but didn't — among the termed the ‘tle
wait for her name tocome up blitz.
~ for that specific job, When her: “
name was called ‘for general Iwas siting at the kitchen,
~ duty, she quickly answered. -
Soon, after, she was walking

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“Giving you personalized:
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down German Street, and up
the front stairs to the former
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~The’ service clubs “were

who were convalescing. They _
were there to use the cafeteria, -

~ before returning to battle.
“We were. there’ to. clean,”

: Laurel Mcintyre’ s ‘City Scribe. Print & Stationery first opened ons |
: May 1: 1991, with photocopying,. faxing, and desktop: ‘publishing ~
“services! Over the years the business: has expanded to provide.

offset printing,.a complete. stationery. line and three new, black and
white ‘photocopiers for their. customers.: In March of 1998; the. new:

xpanded | location’ ‘opened -and: a: bran new Minolta color laser:
hotocopier was: ‘added : Lisa, Phil;: eee and, ane have. been.

-_scrubbed more ornate railings -
‘than I ever hope to see again,

City. Scribe: a great place to work,” ‘says Lai rely:
“City, Sc be ee an extensive. z alone) ine ‘

floor, and I saw this thing putt-.
putt putting by — — -almost at eye

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reading room, library and
_lounges,:and generally rest up

said Perodeau, sardonically. “T

-table in my flat on the ninth.

OO ye dette teevelted B09 Near vlewe an the Nitge’a and ether teathes

ae The Agrecrmont in Urinuviple Naa (raves widely avast since ees

level. I was fascinated.” Until

she found out it was one of the
rockets, or -V ‘bombs, ‘intro- -

~ duced: to: the arsenal: by the
German Army. The bombs be-::

“came. a’ familiar ‘Sight and.
sound to Londoners.

Working.in the Junior Off.
cers Clubs, they watched the .
young men come and 20, es

some never to go home again.

_ The war.came closer early in
“1945, when the Prisoners of .
: War. were released from the
_ camps and sent to Britain as Fas
and. stairs: — - the whole build A aa free

demobbing.  :

“..“We took the wives and {chi

“dren to Canada, then’ brought

‘the POWs back with us — the

* German prisoners,” said Lind-
= ley. ‘They traveled on the deck os
2 below us, and we. weren't al-
lowed to talk to them. But lre-
‘member one young man who.

used to draw. pictures of the:

to them.”
But mostly, they remember
the entire experience» ~~
-< great fondness.

“Tl know it was war, and it

was awful -— but it was also a
lot of fun,” said Perodeau, “It

was ‘Marvelous to be there with |

“They say y néTreaty h has been.a public process. “Over 400 public meetings were held and
an all- -patty committee of the Legislature travelled B.C. to hear views on the Nisga’a and
other treaties. The erent! in Principal has been widely available since 1996. .

\ va ~ eThe treaty: making has not been a an open process, It was done behind closed doors, : : ates
The public mectings that were hed did not engage the publici in the treaty making process, Publi cwho aended the: meting lel confused and

eThe all: party committee of the Legislature was prevented from making changes tothe Nisge'a ‘a Draft Agreement prt
©The Reform and Liberal member of the al: party committee filed a mincity repon. with recommendations Mr, Clark promi to repand

1 ation is requ

“The boys came flooding in
“the: hundreds, in the thou->
~gands,” Graham remembered. ee
They ‘came after D-Day, just; ‘
the buzz bombs: ‘Started.

“were banana boats! ee
~The complete _ “stories of :

S these four women, and.26 oth-

+ ers from British Columbia, are”

girls, then send the pictur eS up ‘be

sible fo ‘the public to ndestandthe ful impr of the Tey.

‘Wednesday, November 11, 1998

JUDY. REIMCHE PHOTO

Nancy Tyrwhitt-Drake, Eileen Graham, ion Lindley and Helen (Pooh) Perodeau
‘share their memories of the Second World War i in anew book. . :

my husband. I was part of it.”

“I feel sorry for the wives
who weren't there. Some of

them were apart for maybe five”
years — some of them with’
~ kids,” added ‘Tyrwhitt Drake. .

“ Were they afraid? The ques-

tion made them skip a beat —

but only for a split second. :
“Not really — — really, hel

“you're young you’ re invincible.

Nothing is going to get you. sf
~ That's why it’s young people’:
who got to war, sald Tyrwhitt. eed

Drake: :

HPs he

ment of your life.”

ene ‘there,’

to walk down to the b oat

yee

included in a new book’ called
‘Women Overseas: Memoirs: of

the Canadian. Red. Cross.
Corps, edited by Frances Mar- -

tin Day, Barbara’ Ladouceur
and Phyllis Spence, and pub-
‘lished by Ronsdale Press. It

“will be available at Pcie i

Books,

(ogee

a She laughed. hee ihe’

J id’
“Standing on: es dock ‘at ar :
- fax, ‘when you expected to walk —

“up the (gangplank] —wehad