The Lethbridge Military Museum is launching a new tour to highlight the women from southern Alberta who enlisted to keep Canada free.
There is a long history behind women and war. Despite providing support in the first World War and conflicts before it, Canadian women were never granted the right to enlist until the second World War.
“It took a while, but the army, navy and air force, eventually by 1941, were convinced they should be allowing the women to serve and had valuable roles for them to take on,” said Wendy Aitkens, the assistant curator of the Lethbridge Military Museum and the mastermind behind this new tour.
The tour is called “Highlighting Herstory” and it all began when Aitkens read a second world war era booklet.
“The “Chinook” was a little magazine that was published here on then number eight bombing and gunnery school.”
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The booklet was all …