January 20, 1944.  These volunteers arrive in Calgary and take up quarters at Currie Barracks. 

Training at Currie Barracks, Calgary, Alberta

Pierre Berton circa 1943.  Berton was the author of some thirty books.  One of them, an autobiography called "Starting Out 1920-1947" describes details of his stay at Camp Vernon, in Vernon, British Columbia.  Berton was never far from a typewriter, his already weighty army kit was further encumbered by an eight pound portable typewriter.

Canadian Author Pierre Berton

Lady Tweedsmuir with her son and Vickers-Armstrong representatives on the launching platform, 18 November, 1941.  The ship she is launching is the ill-fated HMCS Athabaskan