Canada: ONTARIO: Operation Kildare

In jampacked Ottawa last week the disbanding Canadian Women's Army Corps moved out of Kildare Barracks, left the two roomy brick houses invitingly vacant. This was just what 150 war vets, who had formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk...

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