http://www.canada.com/theprovince/ne...f-3cba36b34e62
Aside from her efforts in WWI, this part struck me:
"Because the couple was short of cash, they walked almost 1,000 kilometres along the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks to the coast."
This lady and her husband WALKED from Calgary to the B.C. coast
In 1925. When the highway system was non-existant.
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