Stepping Out
Municipality/Province: Kitchener, ON
Memorial number: 35094-012
Type: Shaft, statue - bronze
Address: 350 East Avenue
Location: Kitchener Armoury
GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.4479249 Long: -80.4696213
Submitted by: Col André D. Gauthier, OMM, CD (CF Ret'd/ret. des FC)
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
The Steppintg Out memorial honours women who served in the Canadian Women's Army Corps between 1941 to 1946. Names of those who died while on service are inscribed on plaques. The monument has a 6' 4" high bronze figure which depicts a young Canadian Women's Army Corps member. The figure depicts how she might have looked when "stepping out" on a pass in town during her basic training course at the wartime Kitchener Training Centre.
The monument was unveiled on May 5, 2001, by the Honourable Hillary Weston, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and Karen Redman, Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre. The unveiling was attended by some 1,500 Canadian Women's Army Corps veterans and relatives, the Mayor of Kitchener, Minister of National Defence representative, Chief of Defence Staff representative, the sculptor (André Gauthier of Orleans, Ontario) and Artcast Inc. Foundry representatives.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
(left plaque/plaque gauche)
C.W.A.C.
1941 - 1945
CENTRE D'ENTRAINMENT
DU SERVICE
FEMINEN DE L'ARMEE
CANADIENNE
ELLES SERVENT AVEC FIERTE
NAMED "STEPPING OUT"
BY
SCULPTOR/ARTIST COLONEL
ANDRE GAUTHIER
(right plaque/plaque droite)
1941 - 1945
CANADIAN WOMEN'S
ARMY CORPS
TRAINING CENTRE
PROUDLY THEY SERVED
DEDICATION AND UNVEILING
MAY 5TH, 2001
BY
THE HONOURABLE HILARY WESTON
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ONTARIO AND
KAREN REDMAN, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
FOR KITCHENER CENTRE
[back/arrière]
(left plaque/plaque gauche)
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WOMEN WHO
DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY
1941 - 1946
W22255 PTE ALEXANDER, SELENA P.
W5019 PTE BEAUCHEMIN, LEONNE
W10290 PTE BURNEY, DORIS
W13584 L/CPL BUCHANAN, EMILY
W22914 PTE BAKER, LAURA M.
W15189 PTE BREWSTER, WINIFRED L.
W11145 PTE COONEY, PATRICIA J.
W11688 PTE CONNOR, EVELYN C.
W2109 A/SGT FOWLER, FLORENCE M.
W4781 PTE GRANT, JEAN
W4844 PTE HARKANS, MARY E.
W130615 PTE HENRY, ROSELLA B.
W15063 PTE HART, MARGARET V.
(right plaque/plaque droite)
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WOMEN WHO
DIED WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY
1941 - 1946
W1333 PTE HEAVENS, BEATRICE M.
W10965 PTE MILLAR, MARY I.
W13800 PTE MORE, PHYLLIS E.
W6453 PTE MUISE, MARY M.
W3440 SGT McBRIDE, MONA E.
W13603 PTE PUGH, ROSEMARY E.
W20488 CPL PASSANT, THELMA F.
W13822 PTE RENNIE, BARBARA S.
W12377 PTE RONEY, LILLIAN I.
W21002 PTE STEWART, EDITH M.
W130290 PTE TREBBLE, PHYLLIS M.
W3248 CPL WALLACE, OLIVE M.
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