Nova Scotia's Part in the Great War

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THE WILLING WAR WORKERS, GLACE BAY.

An organization that blazed a new and unique track in the War, and accomplished great results, especially in the colliery districts of Cape Breton, was the Willing War Workers of Glace Bay.

MRS. G. S. HARRINGTON.

A number of the mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts of the boys “over there,” finding that other Societies lacked the personal touch, banded themselves together to send parcels every week to their own home boys in France, and kept up the good work enthusiastically until Armistice Day, when they disbanded.

Mrs. Gordon S. Harrington, wife of Colonel Harrington, Deputy Overseas Minister, was the first President, and Mrs. Stuart McCawley, of Glace Bay, the Secretary-Treasurer.

Mrs. Harrington went to England in November, 1916, and became actively interested in war work for Canadian soldiers in that country, particularly at the Beaver Hut, Strand, London, and St. Dunstan’s Hostel for blinded soldiers.