Location: Waterloo Region N 43 26.892 W 080 28.185
In front of the Kitchener Armoury, at 350 East Avenue.
On May 5, 2001, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Her Honour Mrs. Hillary Weston unveiled the Canadian Women's Army Corps Memorial Monument. This memorial honours the women who served in the C.W.A.C. between 1941 and 1946. It also lists those who died while on service. The monument has a 6'4" high bronze figure which depicts a young C.W.A.C. member as she might have looked when "stepping out" on a pass in town during her basic training course at the wartime Kitchener Training Centre. The unveiling was attended by some 1,500 C.W.A.C. veterans and relatives, the Mayor of Kitchener, the local Member of Parliament, Minister of National Defence representative, Chief of Defence Staff representative, the sculptor (André Gauthier of Orleans, Ontario) and the Artcast Inc. Foundry representatives.
*from http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca
Marker text:
Front Right:
C.W.A.C.
1941-1945
CENTRE D'ENTRAINMENT
DU SERVICE
FEMINEN DE L'ARMEE
CANADIENNE
ELLES SERVENT AVEC FIERTE
NAMED "STEPPING OUT"
BY
SCULPTOR/ARTIST COLONEL
ANDRE GAUTHIER
Front Left:
1941-1945
CANADIAN WOMEN'S
ARMY CORPS
TRAINING CENTRE
PROUDLY THEY SERVED
DEDICATION AND UNVEILING
MAY 5TH, 2001
BY
THE HONOURABLE HILARY WESTON
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ONTARIO AND
KAREN REDMAN, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
FOR KITCHENER CENTRE
Rear Left:
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WOMEN WHO
DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY
1941-1946
W22255 PTE ALEXANDER, SELENA P.
W5019 PTE BEAUCHEMIN, LEONNE
W10290 PTE BURNEY, DORIS
W13584 L/CPL BUCHANAN, EMILY
W22914 PTE BAKER, LAURA M.
W15189 PTE BREWSTER, WINIFRED L.
W11145 PTE COONEY, PATRICIA J.
W11688 PTE CONNOR, EVELYN C.
W2109 A/SGT FOWLER, FLORENCE M.
W4781 PTE GRANT, JEAN
W4844 PTE HARKANS, MARY E.
W130615 PTE HENRY, ROSELLA B.
W15063 PTE HART, MARGARET V.
Rear Right:
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WOMEN WHO
DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY
1941-1946
W1333 PTE HEAVENS, BEATRICE M.
W10965 PTE MILLAR, MARY I.
W13800 PTE MORE, PHYLLIS E.
W6453 PTE MUISE, MARY M.
W3440 SGT McBRIDE, MONA E.
W13603 PTE PUGH, ROSEMARY E.
W20488 CPL PASSANT, THELMA F.
W13822 PTE RENNIE, BARBARA S.
W12377 PTE RONEY, LILLIAN I.
W21002 PTE STEWART, EDITH M.
W130290 PTE TREBBLE, PHYLLIS M.
W3248 CPL WALLACE, OLIVE M.
I had the privledge of having an ex CWAC work for me a few years ago. One day I heard voices raised in the office next door and, thinking that perhaps she might like a man to appear, I stuck my head around the corner. Just as I did she reared up to her 5'0", stuck her finger in the guys face and said " You figure out what lie you're gonna tell, and I'll write it down". She was 10' tall at that moment.
ReplyDeleteMy mother served in the CWAC and I have a photocopy of a picture of her with two other ladies all in uniform outside a building identified as Canadian Womens Army Corps B Command Quarters. Mom also appeared in the November 27, 1943 issue of The Star Weekly holding a bomb. Anyone know how I can find out more about mom's career?
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