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During the war, Winnie Carr, wife of - Colby Carr worked in Ontario at a munitions plant. In a letter home to Okotoks in Oct. 23, 1942, she wrote: "I operate a machine for the making of certain parts of anti air craft guns and am enjoying my work very much as well as the satisfactory feeling it gives one by doing something really necessary towards the ending of the war."
Okotoks Review Oct. 23, 1942

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War Savings Certificate
21 March 1941
Okotoks, Alberta

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"Okotoks reporting district for the War Savings Campaign went over the top exceeding their quota at the close of the campaign on March 8, with 106 bank pledges, 127 honour pledges, 19 farm plegdes for grain for a total of 246 as against a quota of 150. . . It amounted to a total of $13,100."
Okotoks Review, March 21, 1941