During the second world war nearly 50-thousand women joined up with the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force.

Many of those women came from Southern Alberta, including Peg Tucker, from Okotoks

Tucker says once they got through basic training a lot of the ladies she trained with went into jobs mostly done by men in those days.

She explains, "some of them wanted to be mechanics, a lot of them went in to transport where they could drive trucks, some were paramedics type of thing, and wanted to do first aid."

"There were also a lot of us who, with what we had taken in school and that, were able to do office work."

Tucker spent just a couple of years in the army from 1942 until 1944, but says it's a time she'll always remember.

After spending her first year in the Army away from home, Tucker requested and was granted a transfer back to Calgary, where she met her future Husband Harry.

He was in the Army and worked as an MP, while peg worked for the Provost Marshall's office, or the Judge Advocate General as it would be known today.

Harry Tucker during his time as an MP in Calgary in the 1940's He and Peg would marry shortly after the war and relocate eventually to Harry's hometown of Okotoks. Photo - Peg Tucker.

Peg was one of 10 children born to Sidney and Constance Skeet.

She was one of three children born in England before the Family emigrated to Canada to farm in Delia near Drumheller in 1925.

The "Dirty Thirties" were hard on the family and when the War broke out in 1939 Sidney moved the entire family, which now counted all 10 children to Calgary.

Peg says her oldest brother Lionel joined the Army shortly after and was shipped off to fight in Italy and the Netherlands in late 1941.

He didn't return to Canada until 1946, which Peg says was tough as they'd always been a close knit family.

Her Father Sid, joined the Canadian Army shortly after moving the family to the city.

She says for him it was his second stint in the military after he fought for the British Army against the Turks in World War I.

This photo of Sidney Skeet (r) and Lionel Skeet (l) appeared in the Calgary Herald in the afternoon of November 11, 1941 at the Cenotaph at Calgary's Central Memorial Park. Lionel would be shipped out for Europe shortly after where he would see combat in Italy, Holland and Belgium. Photo - Peg Tucker.

I talked with Peg at her Okotoks home in the days leading up to Remembrance Day.