Clive
No need to dig out your body armour. Bill Gregg did some great work that is a benefit to us all, and he did it at a time when all of Canada's production efforts prior to and during World War Two, had largely been forgotten and were rapidly slipping away from us. He got us thinking and asking questions in the ongoing quest for answers about this amazing time in Canadian history.
It is hard sometimes for us to shake ourselves free from the world we know today and are comfortable with, and try to understand that the world of the 30's, or 40's or 50's was a different place, functioning in a different way that worked very well.
Bill Gregg's real legacy is the framework of information he was able to assemble. He would have been the first to admit it was not a complete, fully fleshed out product and he would be thrilled to see how much more information we have discovered and been able to add to his baseline. Who knows where it will lead in the future and what gems of discovery are yet to be found, not just here in Canada, but Australia, New Zealand, and anywhere else on the globe where CMP's have left there tracks.
David
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