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Salmon in the Galley
Painted in 1944 by Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904–1949)

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The kitchen in the recruiting and basic training centre, HMCS Carleton, Ottawa. The 6,781 women who served in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service held clerical and service positions, and worked in communications, transportation and logistics.

"Here in the galleys life was joyous, with the girls singing, amazingly agreeable under their hanging pots and sieves."

— Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1944


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