Blacks in the Service

The wars, they did not take as many from the ethnic groups as they are now. And the large numbers of coloured people were only apparent in like Nova Scotia, and Montréal and Toronto. Maybe a little bit of the area of Vancouver too, might have been sensed too, you know. There were certain stories coming out of some branches of the services that blacks were not needed or not wanted, I forget how they phrased it. I’m probably putting the wrong emphasis on the word here but they were not as popular areas in which the coloured or blacks would want to serve. Army was an area where there were a lot more coloured presentation rather than the Air Force and that, but during the very same period there were coloured airmen, there were coloured seamen, so I think there were. . . . The stories that we heard were just probably occasional stories where some areas they did not receive the other ethnic groups so willingly.