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Canada's first ski school for training soldiers in the type of winter warfare waged so successfully by the Finns against the Russians has just opened (...)

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Canada's first ski school for training soldiers in the type of winter warfare waged so successfully by the Finns against the Russians has just opened (...)

Date12/4/1940

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Canada. Canadian Army (subject)

James, Norman (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Canada's first ski school for training soldiers in the type of winter warfare waged so successfully by the Finns against the Russians has just opened on the dominion experiemental farm at Ottawa. Here is Lieut. Thomas P. Gilday; chief instructor; giving his class an introductory lesson to their three-week course.

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002194F

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