WARTIME WEDNESDAYS -- Visit my blog to see some wonderful old photos of Royal Canadian Air Force women performing their duties. this woman is plotting aircraft positions. www.elinorflorence.com/blog/rcaf-women
Thanks once again , Elinor, your blog in indicative of your constant research on WW2. Great photographs . I forwarded your blog to my daughter last night, a 42 year old rock climbing , sheet shooting , rifle and pistol target shooting engineer outdoor woman who emailed back that if she had been born then she would have loved to have ferried planes. You have a convert. Keep up the good work and should we be expecting another novel ? Gaines
Western women contributing at work (in the '40's). Voting and driving. Marrying same sex. Divorce. Freedom. What great countries/ideology the West has produced...The reason everyone wants to be here. Thanks for that refresher Miss Florence.
Another in a long line of excellent entries of your blog. These photos are priceless. Thanks for putting them up.
Thanks, Gaines. My next novel titled Wildwood has been accepted by a publisher and will come out in March 2018 -- a whole year from now! It's about pioneer life in northern Alberta so it's a departure from my wartime theme, but it's another aspect of Canadian history that interest me.
I envy anyone who has the ability to conceive and write like you do. It's a talent I wish I had. Congratulations.
How Northern -like above Edmonton?...It was very hard for those settlers. So dang cold for 4-5 months a year. Would guess they would have followed the railroad and rivers. Wop May was basically Dudley Doright. There's a book right there. My suggestion only cost's you 10% of all sales. lol. Goodstuff MsF.
Have you been to Nanton- they have some neat stuff...Heard anything about the airfield in Claresholm(?) or was it Vulcan- they trained guys on the Moth...There was a diner there that was infamous. Hollywood stars would eat there. The hotel in waterton also has a lot of history...Burndirt1 said his best times were there...My great granpappy helped build it. Had an ox train to carry lumber there...He built a model of the oxtrain...wonder if someone in the family still has that.
Yes, my new novel is set in the Peace River country, actually about 100 miles north of Peace River. And yes, I have been to Nanton several times and the Bomber Command Museum is great, especially now that they have all four Merlin engines running on their Lancaster!
Thanks for that MsFlorence. Canada has an unacknowledged place in history. Cheers. Edit- damn phone and its tiny buttons and screen.