The Goverment Announced the first AOPS would be named Harry Dewolf. They have now announced the second will be Named HMCS Margaret Brooke.
Margaret Brooke was aboard the SS Caribou when it was torpedoed off the coast of Newfoundland on Oct. 13, 1942. Her Actions earned her the Order of the British Empire.
Brooke was born in Ardath, a village located approximately 70 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon.
She
enlisted in the Second World War on March 9, 1942, as a “nursing
sister/dietician.” She was eventually promoted to the rank of
lieutenant-commander. She was a passenger on the SS Caribou Oct. 13,
1942, as it attempted to cross the Cabot Strait off the coast of
Newfoundland.
The ship was hunted and torpedoed by the German
submarine U-69, according to government records. It took only five
minutes for the Caribou to sink.
After the war, Brooke
returned to her studies at the University of Saskatchewan. She earned a
doctorate in paleontology and went on to author several major research
studies in her field. She Turned 100 this past Saturday, and was visited at her home in Victoria By Commodore Bob Auchterlonie, Commander Canadian Fleet Pacific, who delivered the news.