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This blog is by Chris Boyle, follower of Jesus, husband, father, grandfather.
Lorraine’s Diary: This is a transcription of my Mom’s (Lorraine Butters Boyle) Diary from 1944 to 1948. Mom a seventeen-year-old teenager from a farm near Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She eventually was a church organist in Colgate. In 1944 she was the piano player for a dance band in Weyburn. In these days before school busses she, and her sisters, each had to move from the farm into town to attend school for Grades 11 & 12. This is the darkest time in World War II. Weyburn hosted an airbase for BCATP (British Commonwealth Air Training Plan). In other words, the town is filled with eligible young airmen from all over the world …