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West Van woman to
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HELPING TO get a War Brides club going on the North
Shore is the Jatest item in Maureen Harvey’s long history of
volunteer work, which started soon after she arrived in this

country in 1945.

That was in January, when
Harvey disembarked in Halifax
with 2 four-month-old son after a
voyage that had been extended
from seven to 15 days due to
enemy submarine attacks.

Now, she and fellow - North

- Shore resident, Winnifred Rose,

are working to get local war brides

volunteer at the hospital daycare
centre.

Harvey met her Canadian hus-
band Ken Harvey when he was
serving in England as a Squadron
Leader with the Royal Canadian

KNOW YOUR

together into a friendly support
group.

“When we first came to Canada
and were raising young children,
we were too busy to keep in touch. +

. Now that we're getting older and

some of us are losing our hus-
bands, it’s time to get together, tell
some tall tales and help each
other,’’ says Harvey.

A spry 64 year old, Harvey
swims and leads a keep-fit class for

seniors at Woodcroft, where she «

lives. She recently broke a leg ski-
ing and had to give up that
favorite hobby.

. She is a former president of the
Lions Gate Hospital Auxiliary, has

= served on the hospital’s toard of

directors and is still active as a

WEST VANCOUVER ' residents
will have their chance to help with
the Red Cross blood donor drive
on Thursday, Dec. 29.

Between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. that

’ ‘da , & blood clinic will be held at
the ‘West Vancouver Recreation

Centre, 780 — 22nd St.

~The Red Cross is launching a
major drive to bring in blood
donors over. the critical holiday

- season.

The Christmas period i is ‘always a
difficult one for blood collection
because of holidays and the other
demands on people’s time.. Last
January the Red Cross had its first
shortage in two — years
because it went into the Christmas
period: without: the necessary
backlog of blood donations, said
Len Lifchus, director of blood
donor, recruitment : , for the Red
Cross.

Lifchus explained : “that each
donation of whole blood is sepa-
rated into its components and has

the potential to save four lives. A |

total:.of approximately) 135,000

_units of whole blood was collected

last year in B.C. \

For more
donating blood, or other clinic.
locations and times, call. the Red
Cross at 879-7551."

Oh what a
feeling! ‘e

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Air Force. .

The daughter of a Royal Navy
captain, Maureen was invited to an
air force ball, where her future
husband was introduced to her.
They were married six months
later.

Harvey laughs as she recalls giv-
ing birth to her son David while

“German bombers fiew overhead,

and: his father was out flying ‘a
mission of his own,

The couple was separated for
three or four months, after Ken

.went home for some “'R & R”’ and
“Maureen waited to join him.

The winter weather that greeted
Mrs. Harvey in Halifax that first
January, after her exciting voyage,
was the hardest aspect of Canadian

life for her to get used to.

“*I had never in my life felt such
cold,”’ she remembers.

Reluctant to don the long
woolen stockings women wore
then, Harvey was warned that she
would ‘‘freeze her behind”’ off if
she didn’t.

The family continued west to
Winnipeg, where there was a warm
welcome from Canadians as well
as Maureen’s uncle, George
Hastom, ‘then editer of the Win-
nipeg Tribune.

Harvey decided early on that she
was going to become a Canadian,
so the transition to this new life
came quite easily.

Still, she was taken aback when
travelling to Kamfack, Saskat-
chewan, where she was greeted in
Russian by a Doukhoubour man in
a huge fur coat.

“‘Where are we?’’ she asked,
momentarily confused.

A daughter, Gillian, was born in
Regina before the family came
west to Edmonton, and then to
West Vancouver in 1961.
Throughout those years she was
active with her church and several
service groups. !

Trained as a social worker,
Harvey worked for some time as a
director at Renfrew Community
Centre, where she was involved
with young people.

In all, Harvey looks back on
some 30 years of volunteer work
with numerous local organizations.

Widowed now, Harvey divides
her energies between her family
(including four grandchildren) and
various activities, which will soon
include monthly get-togethers with
fellow war brides.

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5 - Sunday, December 11, 1988 — West Vancouver Villager

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MAUREEN HARVEY holds a photograph of her. husband, Squadron
Leader Kenneth Campbell Harvey. Harvey is helping to organize & War
Brides Club on the North Shore.

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