The Triangle run and service in the St. Lawrence.
Heroes Remember
The Triangle run and service in the St. Lawrence.
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Description
Mr. Carroll describes routes that he sailed on in the Atlantic. His service also brought him into the St. Lawrence bay where enemy submarines were known to frequent.
Francis Carroll
Mr. Carroll was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1916. He was one of 12 children, six girls and five boys. In 1927 he moved to Rockingham. Mr. Carroll's father was a bookkeeper in Halifax. For a few years during the depression of the 1930s Mr. Carroll served in the CNS, Canadian National Steamship service. He spent two to four years aboard CNS Boat Two, the Prince Henry, before joining the Navy in 1939. Mr. Carroll served aboard the HMCS Acadia, a ship that is now docked in Halifax harbour and serves as part of a naval museum. Mr. Carroll's services took him on the Triangle run, a route that included Boston to Halifax to Newfoundland. In 1941 Mr. Carroll married and had two children. After the war he worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs at Camp Hill Hospital in the re-establishing of credit to Veterans. In 1950-51 he managed to get a job at the dock yards in Halifax as a timekeeper where he worked for 29½ years before retiring.
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- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 02:24
- Person Interviewed:
- Francis Carroll
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Canada
- Battle/Campaign:
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Branch:
- Navy
- Units/Ship:
- Acadia
- Occupation:
- Steward
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