month April 2024
The station had a dedicated pastor, as many trainees would be religious during this time. The services were held in the movie theatre, as it had the right amount of seating.
“The Hut” as it was called, was the pilot’s leisure centre in Abbotsford proper. The building itself was donated by Abbotsford real estate owners and up kept by donations. Most weeks had at least one event going on at the… Continue Reading →
Saturday afternoons a local Catholic priest would travel over from Abbotsford to preform confessions at the station. This suggests that the majority of the pilots weren’t Catholic, as there was a specific station pastor, who was not Catholic. Rather than… Continue Reading →
With military hierarchy fully intact in the station, the officers had their own food hall. Granted it took nearly a year of the stations life for it to be built, but it was eventually done nonetheless. The mess was open… Continue Reading →
Movies were shown twice weekly during the majority of the stations life. Though they were often cancelled if other events took up the same time frame, such as holidays, parties, or actual military training. Originally there were bans on where… Continue Reading →
The Breeze is one of the primary sources of information for this website, as it published a newspaper every Friday about the goings on of the station. This paper served to inform pilots about upcoming events, rumours, and even contained… Continue Reading →
One may be surprised to learn that pilots who spent their whole day learning about planes would then choose to spend their Thursday evenings building smaller planes, but it is true. The No. 24 EFTS model club built model planes… Continue Reading →
Wednesday nights the sporting areas were open to the women on staff. They were also allowed to invite others to come join them in the sports facilities, and there was a women’s shower room as well as a men’s.
The various facilities in the station hall were open to the men Tuesday nights. They were allowed to invite guests to come play with them. There was also a shower room for keeping the pilots presentable after the rigors of… Continue Reading →
In 1944, there was a push for US citizens currently training in Canada to return to the US forces. As both the editors of the Breeze newspaper were from the US, they were faced with the prospect of the paper… Continue Reading →