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Bernard Joseph Daye served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Read and listen to his testimony below.
Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Transcript
I was just fresh out of school [in 1942] and was just in Vancouver [British Columbia]. Seen the ships. I worked in the shipyard, helping to build them. So when I got to the ripe age of about 15, I joined the navy. Vancouver is where we were from. So when I was navy, I went out of Halifax [Nova Scotia] on a steady basis and then crossed the English Channel with escorts, the supply ships through submarine country area out off of Halifax and the Atlantic. My duties were boiler room, making steam when needed, and the engine room. It was easy for me because I was working in the shipyards; and we had, well, you’d call them a barbecue today, but the blacksmith shop in there and they had all the, you’re under heat and that all the time. I basically enjoyed it. I was the great age of 15, so I had a lot of friends or fellows my age to become friends. We seen a lot of the world, here, in the Atlantic and we escorted the convoys over to Europe, England especially.
