Inconsistencies in the RCAF

There were inconsistencies. When the war broke out, black people, as they did in the First World War, black men went to the recruiting units and they were told that it was a white man’s war, and that they were not accepting them. They tried to join the RCAF, the RCAF had a policy that was printed right in its recruiting advertisements in the newspaper. You had to be of European extraction. With a tremendous amount of political pressure applied to the government of the day by people on the east coast, black people on the east coast and also black people in the community of Buxton, you know that community. Letters were written to the Prime Minister, and as a result of this communication the RCAF did loosen up its recruiting policy. As a result of that there were, in my home town about seven guys who were accepted into the Air Force.