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The transcription in English is not available at this moment. Please refer to the transcript in French.
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![Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army.]({"id":"4374580e-2935-4f5a-9e15-4ca6d2ba8ed7","disk":"s3","directory":"mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard","filename":"5132_538","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":33094,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","updated_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5132_538.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5132_538.jpg","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","pivot":{"mediable_id":"835ab769-af11-444b-be0b-e63b23a48938","media_id":"4374580e-2935-4f5a-9e15-4ca6d2ba8ed7","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":2},"translations":[{"id":"9e3dd2df-8082-4d0f-8459-1a6ffec46dcb","media_id":"4374580e-2935-4f5a-9e15-4ca6d2ba8ed7","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"en","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"},{"id":"a260a6af-093c-4982-8222-e7512f5677e7","media_id":"4374580e-2935-4f5a-9e15-4ca6d2ba8ed7","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard et ses copines de l'Arm\u00e9e.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard et ses copines de l'Arm\u00e9e.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"fr","credit":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"}]} "Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army.")
Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army.
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<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project/Cécile Grimard<br></p>
![Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing "fatigue suits", September 16th, 1944.]({"id":"518882bf-efaf-4c10-a0dc-5de86c8149a7","disk":"s3","directory":"mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard","filename":"5131_538","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":31074,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","updated_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing \"fatigue suits\", September 16th, 1944.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing \"fatigue suits\", September 16th, 1944.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5131_538.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5131_538.jpg","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","pivot":{"mediable_id":"835ab769-af11-444b-be0b-e63b23a48938","media_id":"518882bf-efaf-4c10-a0dc-5de86c8149a7","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":3},"translations":[{"id":"7909feab-b78d-4c93-b8f2-1850cb5e0672","media_id":"518882bf-efaf-4c10-a0dc-5de86c8149a7","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing \"fatigue suits\", September 16th, 1944.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing \"fatigue suits\", September 16th, 1944.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"en","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"},{"id":"4a6b8b1b-a29c-4f11-b3dc-1be12e619705","media_id":"518882bf-efaf-4c10-a0dc-5de86c8149a7","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard et ses copines de l'Arm\u00e9e habill\u00e9es en \u2018fatigue suits\u2019, 16 septembre 1944.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard et ses copines de l'Arm\u00e9e habill\u00e9es en \u2018fatigue suits\u2019, 16 septembre 1944.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"fr","credit":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"}]} "Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing \"fatigue suits\", September 16th, 1944.")
Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army, wearing "fatigue suits", September 16th, 1944.
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<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project/Cécile Grimard<br></p>
![Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.]({"id":"6c9b41c5-92f2-42ef-b6ec-b0cb55684b3f","disk":"s3","directory":"mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard","filename":"5133_538","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":30914,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","updated_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5133_538.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5133_538.jpg","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","pivot":{"mediable_id":"835ab769-af11-444b-be0b-e63b23a48938","media_id":"6c9b41c5-92f2-42ef-b6ec-b0cb55684b3f","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":4},"translations":[{"id":"1b838942-2c76-474c-80bd-750656ca9da8","media_id":"6c9b41c5-92f2-42ef-b6ec-b0cb55684b3f","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"en","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"},{"id":"89eaf527-36cb-444d-8e2b-d04d14bd8a3f","media_id":"6c9b41c5-92f2-42ef-b6ec-b0cb55684b3f","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard et ses copines de l'Arm\u00e9e \u00e0 Kitchener, Ontario, en septembre 1944.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard et ses copines de l'Arm\u00e9e \u00e0 Kitchener, Ontario, en septembre 1944.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"fr","credit":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"}]} "Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.")
Cécile Grimard and her friends from the Army in Kitchener, Ontario, September 1944.
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<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project/Cécile Grimard<br></p>
![Cécile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.]({"id":"77f2680e-9c1e-478c-a5a1-c164ebd91a44","disk":"s3","directory":"mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard","filename":"5134_538","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":40383,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","updated_at":"2021-07-21T18:57:15.000000Z","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5134_538.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/mpsb\/Cecile-Grimard\/5134_538.jpg","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","pivot":{"mediable_id":"835ab769-af11-444b-be0b-e63b23a48938","media_id":"77f2680e-9c1e-478c-a5a1-c164ebd91a44","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":5},"translations":[{"id":"67c1b955-c2a6-4ca1-a29a-a3f080ffa092","media_id":"77f2680e-9c1e-478c-a5a1-c164ebd91a44","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"en","credit":"<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"},{"id":"7bd8177a-ed8d-49eb-b3a8-ee03f87c4109","media_id":"77f2680e-9c1e-478c-a5a1-c164ebd91a44","title":"C\u00e9cile Grimard au Parlement de Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de la fin de la guerre, 1995.","alt":"C\u00e9cile Grimard au Parlement de Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de la fin de la guerre, 1995.","caption":"<p><br><\/p>","creator":"","source":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>","locale":"fr","credit":"<p>Avec la permission du Projet M\u00e9moire\/C\u00e9cile Grimard<br><\/p>"}]} "Cécile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.")
Cécile Grimard at the Parliament of Quebec, during the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, 1995.
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<p>Courtesy of the Memory Project/Cécile Grimard<br></p>
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