RCAF veteran remembers her service ahead of her hundredth birthday

When Winifred Stewart, 99, looks at photographs from her days in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) almost 75 years ago, memories come flooding back.
“We were proud of our uniform, blue, and if you didn’t leave Canada you didn’t get the Canada badge,” she said, tracing her finger over the shoulder badge on her uniform in a black-and-white photo taken in a park in Winnipeg in 1945 where she was discharged after the Second World War, embroidered with the word Canada above