Student Activities
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“Work or fight” attitudes dominated many student activities during the war. Healthy males trained with some branch of the armed services: Canadian Officers Training Corps, University Air Training Corps, and off-campus naval and military organizations. Female students performed auxiliary services.
Research into student activities during the war indicate that until 1941, people (in addition to training and auxiliary activities) continued to participate in campus recreational activities and sports, socialized at the Tuck Shop, held dances, partied at fraternities, and belonged to a wide variety of clubs.
From 1941 to 1945, the Royal Canadian Air Force took over the residences and the Education Building, and built a Drill Hall and Canteen. The Navy took over St Joseph’s College for training.
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After 1941, all university dances and other functions were held in uptown Edmonton. University students looking for entertainment, drinks, food, and places to dance included the dance halls The Barn and the Trocadero. The Macdonald Hotel also provided formal dance and dining opportunities. These establishments attracted not only students but locals as well. Americans connected with those connected with the construction of the Alaska Highway and those involved with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan—British, New Zealand, Australian, and Canadian servicemen who were billeted in the livestock barns on the Edmonton Exhibition grounds.