Unfortunately it happened a year after I left. They'd just opened it up to women and I figured it would be the first trade that would send women to sea. Spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve: I was a cook. Enough said for those of us who lived through it-and those who didn't seem to be getting another chance to fall off platform shoes. It was the late sixties, early to mid seventies. Raised, for the most part, in Kingston, Ontario. Or possibly with the fact that almost no one admits to being from Ontario… I think it's something to do with being born in sight of the ocean. "Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Although I haven't actually lived "down east" since just before my fourth birthday, I still consider myself a Maritimer.
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