August 9, 1938
Her cousin P. is in the navy and later will serve on this ship in Halifax. It will be a minesweeper. He will help lay the cable into the depths of the ocean. He will never return to the West Coast. He marries and has 4 children. She will meet them in 1951, after the war.
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[Sidenote: Sources Images (Altered)
COV archives: AM54-S4 Launching of H.M.C.S. “Comox”, Burrard Dry Dock, August 9, 1938. Majoy James Skitt Matthews, City Archivist credited.
CVA 99-4981, Burrard Shipyard and Engineering Dock, 1936. Photographer: Stuart Thompson, Commercial/Professional Photographer. 1881. Died of a heart attack in 1960.]
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