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Woolsey Family Collection
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1943-1944 (Vervaardig)
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Leonard Rutledge Woolsey was born in Penzance, Saskatchewan in 1922 to Hulbert and Barbara Woolsey. Leonard Woolsey served in the Navy during World War Two and was a member of the crew of the HMCS Athabaskan, which was disabled by a German air attack in August 1943. He also served at sea on the HMCS Chaudiere. He received a commission, ending the war attached to the Royal Navy as a Fleet Air Arm Fighter Controller. After the war, Woolsey attended the University of Saskatchewan where he graduated from Mechanical Engineering in 1949. He worked as a senior executive with Gulf Oil. Leonard Woolsey died in 2008.
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Barbara (Mitchell) Woolsey was born in 1898. Barbara immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1906. She married Hulbert Woolsey in 1915 and together they farmed at Penzance, Saskatchewan. Barbara and Hulbert had two daughters and ten sons. Barbara was an active member of the United Church and the Ladies Auxliary to the Legion. Her husband died in 1968. She moved to Regina in 1971 to enter a nursing home. She died in 1981.
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This collection was purchased by the University Library in 2016 from M. Benjamin Katz of Toronto.
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Five original Canadian letters from World War Two, with content about the destroyer HMCS Athabaskan, pride in service, the Wrens, criticisms of those young men not serving, and duties while in service. Two of the letters were written by Telegrapher Leonard Woolsey. The other letters were written by Barbara Woolsey. The letters were addressed to Eldon Woolsey, brother of Leonard and son of Barbara, who served overseas with the RCAF.
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