The kitchen in the recruiting and basic training centre, HMCS Carleton, Ottawa. The 6,781 women who served in the Womens Royal Canadian Naval Service held clerical and service positions, and worked in communications, transportation and logistics.
"Here in the galleys life was joyous, with the girls singing, amazingly agreeable under their hanging pots and sieves."
Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1944
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