Excerpts from - A Good Town Continues - Bracebridge 1915-1999 Published by The Town of Bracebridgepage 133 - 1943 "The RCAF Mobile Recruiting Unit was in town regularly to meet men and women at the Town Hall, and in September, Miss Alma Peacock and Mrs. T.W. Pierce were selected as RCAF recruiting representatives."
page 46 - 1946 - "Miss Alma Peacock was president of the newly formed Business and Professional Women's Club who were told by a guest speaker 'that women are the heartbeat and pulse of the world and men must learn to realize that business and professional women can express their opinions and be heard."
page 328 - 1992 - "Alma Peacock, born in Falkenburg, daughter of Thomas and Emma (Forsyth) Peacock, on the staff of the Thomas Company and the Bracebridge Gazette, took over her father's insurance business and ran it for twenty-five years until she sold it to K.W. Rogers Insurance Brokers"
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