Canadian Merchant Navy
1943-45

Vern Harvey (1922 - 2017). Vern was born in Antler, Saskatchewan on 16 Mar 1922. After Vern finished High School he moved to Toronto and took his Commercial Radio training. With that experience he was able to enlist with the Canadian Merchant Navy in Jan 1943 and was assigned to the SS Algonquin Park in March 1943 as a Radio Officer.