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Mrs. Mortimer recalls how the name came about.
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First of all, mostly English boys that were flying the planes and they came down, burnt and what not and they got together and said, “Well, what are we, we’ll form a club.” And that’s how they started and one of them said and one of them said, “Well, just nothing but McIndoe’s guinea pigs, that’s all we are,” and so that really hit the nail on the head. They said, “Ya, that’s what we are going to call ourselves, The Guinea Pig Club.” They had a secretary that had lost his fingers so they made him, called him the Secretary. But they were very jolly and what was so wonderful about Sir Archibald - he kept everybody together and every year they would meet at Felbridge Hotel. And every year, for 60 years, they met and for the 60th year they came out also after their English one, they came out to Canada and that’s where I met them. And they all came out! They were proud to be Guinea Pigs. They, some of them even said that they, they wouldn’t have had it otherwise. If they had a choice, they had gone through misery, absolute misery, but they became such good friends. It was such a wonderful feeling, that’s what, and that’s why I just thought they were so wonderful.