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Chartrand served with the Canadian Women’s Army Corp during the Second World War. In 1944, she was recruited for clerical work in Britain and worked at Canada House. Living in London, she experienced wartime bombing, which she recalled as “the only scary thing about being there”: “When we heard the air raid siren when we were in bed at night, it was kind of eerie, kind of scary. We wondered where this bomb was going to land. We would all lie so still , you could hear a pin drop, I’m sure , and once we heard this explosion, we knew that we were safe and we all relaxed and go back to sleep again. Or get up and rush to the bathroom!” Chartrand was also present at the VE Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square.
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https://ourelderstories.com/video/grandmothers-of-the-Métis-nation/