photo by Sue Ferguson –
From Glasgow, Cathie McGinnity was just nine when the war ended, but she remembers waiting in bomb shelters while the warplanes flew over. Once, the planes targeted the shipyard, but missed and bombed a tenement building, killing many people. The sight of that stays with her to this day. Cathie devotes her life to volunteering and was recently awarded the Sovereign Medal for Volunteers by the Lt. Governeror. She was the first female President of ANAV Unit 302 (Army, Navy, Airforce Veterans of Canada) in Sidney and currently serves as the Vice President of ANAV.
John White, from the U.K., served with the National Service from 1951-1953 and was with the Royal Signals. He was posted in Germany for close to two years with the British Army of the Rhine.
Both Cathie and John came to Canada in the late 1950s and have lived in Sidney for many years. They are active members of the Army & Navy Unit 302.
