Working Office

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Working Office

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And we had an office separate from the navy downtown which was unique, I think. Because we had the public relations divisions of the three Armed Forces, all in that one building, the old Laurentian building just off the main drag there. We had the army, navy and air force. And most of them were journalists who'd worked all across Canada and had signed up and a lot of them, we knew each other, some of us, and we had the men and the women's divisions and we happened, we ended up on the top floor which is fourth floor with no elevator in those days which was good for us, I guess, running up and down. But the WD's were there on the next floor and the army girls and then the men had their sections. And so, it was sort of one big family of people who all had the same kind of job but we were all wearing different uniforms and writing about different parts of the war. It was, it was really a wonderful education to be doing that together and keeping tab on what the other forces were doing and how it was going all over the world really. And that, that was a very good idea having a loft there together. We worked well together. And we didn't have to be at naval service headquarters which was the great advantage, upsy downsy and saluting every three seconds. We were on our own over in that building.

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Ms. Whyard describes the offices she worked in and how everyone knew everyone and got along real well.

Florence Whyard

Florence Whyard was born in 1917, and lived throughout Western Ontario. She comes from a military background as her father served in both the First World War and the Second World War. Ms.Whyard joined the war effort in 1943 after her two brothers joined up, one entering the air force and the other enlisting in the army. Ms.Whyard became a journalist for the Naval Information Unit and worked long hours to get the required information out to the people awaiting it.

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