Leisure
When it came to spending free time, the trainees had a wealth of options, the main two being Town Hall and The Hut. Town Hall was a large budling, constructed within the station it worked as the main area for trainees, staff, and other station-goers to rest and have fun. The name “Town Hall” was decided on by a contest run by the Breeze newspaper, and it stuck from then on. The building had a sports floor with accompanying showers and lockers, a soundproof library, a billiards room, a movie theatre and stage, and a couple of offices for the station chaplain, YMCA representative, and the Breeze newspaper. The building itself was made over a long period of time and there were plans to add more to it (a bowling alley and indoor shooting range) but these fell apart once the war ended and the station closed.
The Hut was a building within Abbotsford, maintained by the city to cater to the visiting pilots.