Margaret Peggy Alberta This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. ::Pier21 - Gateway to Canada : : Veteran - Horace Robinson Macaulay::

   www.pier21.ca/Veteran_-_Horace - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/1/2003   Last Visited: 11/29/2006

   Peggy would recall those pioneer years in Canada, which included considerable travel and well over twenty different homes.
   
   Red entered his last year of high school at Sussex, New Brunswick in 1938 at the age of 17 years. Diversion from the books that coming winter involved important development training in the militia with the New Brunswick Rangers. How proud he was to be called for street lining in Saint John next spring when Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, visited Canada. Military association would continue as he progressed to the rank of Sergeant in the First Pontoon Bridge Park of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (Regimental Number G414525), in the Non-Permanent Active Militia (NPAM), while attending fourth year industrial training in motor mechanics at the
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   Peggy is also a veteran of World War II, serving as a cipher operator in the Royal Signals Corps of the British Army. She was working in the London underground War Offices when meeting a young Canadian member of the RCAF on leave in this war-torn city.
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   Peggy and Red announced their engagement during their Christmas holidays and were married on the 17th of April 1943, at Burgh Heath That evening in London, in a lovely hotel in Russell Square, Peggy opened her suitcase only to find that her clothes were filled with confetti. The air raid sirens sounded about the same time and a member of the hotel staff entered the room to ensure the blackout curtains were drawn. She was somewhat amazed to discover the hotel had a newly wed couple in residence. However, she hastily retired with a message that she did not expect us to spend the night in an air raid shelter. This may not have been our decision.
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   As Peggy traveled extensively in Canada and Europe as a military wife, she was always involved with more than her share of community responsibilities. While living in Ottawa she was an early student of Richard Robinson, a leading couturier in Canada. She also attended leadership education training at the Conference Centre in Couchiching, Ontario, and taught dress design /making with the Continuing Education Program of the Ottawa School Board. Her skill as a dress designer/maker was always in demand, and in later years her original items of costume dolls have found happy homes in many countries. Peggy was also employed in the china department of Sears Canada for over 15 years.
   
   Red and Peggy had three children - Peter, born in England and now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Jane, born in emergency married quarters at a military base in Rivers, Manitoba and now living in Toronto; and Sandra, born in the Civic Hospital in Ottawa and now living in Mississauga.