By Jenna Leifso, Archivist Your training is done and you’re about to go back to the war in Europe or the Pacific but you have to leave behind your new wife or girlfriend in Canada. What do you give her to remember you by? A popular option for those in the...
In Part 1, we featured the three dogs that appeared in class photos from No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Sky Harbour, Goderich. Today is a somber post about a dog that was killed by one of the guards. On February 29, 1944, a letter ran in the Sky...
Military pets have long been a part of military (and Canadian) history, so we were pleased to find three local examples in the class photos from No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Sky Harbour, Goderich. Class 1 The first class dog of No. 12 EFTS was...