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Mrs Grégoire tells us about all the up sides of clerical training in Toronto.
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After Basic Training... Parades and Movie Stars!
They sent us to Toronto, and I went to clerical school in Toronto and it was down on Jarvis Street. You know where Jarvis Street, Toronto is, it was the home of the prostitutes then. And we were down on Jarvis Street at the, at the training school there and after we graduated from there, then we did Victory Loan* parades. So, I was there for a while doing Victory Loan parades and Victory Loan parades were always marshalled by some very important parade marshal, it was always somebody who was very, very important, either in Canada or, and lot of movie stars came up and they parade marshalled for our parades, for one of our parades, cause I was in many, for one of our parades was Walter Pidgeon, well-known Canadian actor that had, had been, was in Hollywood and it, we were, the people in Toronto invited the, the girls that took place, took part in the parade to their homes for the weekend then. It was always on Saturday, usually. Not always, usually on a Saturday, and you were invited out then for dinner and to stay the night and they would bring us back to barracks the next day. So, this time, we were invited to the home of D.B. Pidgeon, the half-brother of Walter Pidgeon. So we had, we had two each. And they always, we always usually went in pairs or some, some richer homes would take, that had more room, would take four or six and then, but it was quite an exciting thing for us. Two eighteen year-olds, you know have, sitting and having dinner with a movie star in those days, right after the Depression. So...
*Victory Loan Parade - Fundraising activity surrounding the Victory Bond campaign. Victory Bonds were sold in an effort to raise money to help finance the war.