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Heather Erxleben

In January 1989, the former truck driver for a lumber company joined the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Light Infantry in Victoria, British Columbia, becoming the first Canadian female combat soldier. She was twenty-two years old. Women were admitted to Canadian military colleges for the first time in 1979.

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Bondar, Roberta
Chapman, John H.
Chitty, Dennis
Garneau, Marc
Johnston, Gary
Rogers, Richard Birdsall


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