No. 7 Initial Training School:

by Bruce Forsyth (www.militarybruce.com), with permission

Opened during World War II, Bedford Road collegiate was leased by the federal government to provide facilities for the RCAF’s No. 7 Initial Training School.

No. 7 ITS closed sometime after March 1944.

Source material: information supplied by Jeff O’Brien, City Archivist, City of Saskatoon (2000).

RF Messenger and RP Short died while on strength to No. 7 ITS.