Editing Marcel Chaput (section)

=== Technician ===
He had been working at the [[E. B. Eddy Company|Eddy paper manufacture]] since May 1939 when the [[National Research Council (Canada)|National Research Council]] (NRC) of Canada granted him a job interview in the month of December of the same year. He was hired as chemistry laboratory aid to doctor [[Richard Helmuth Fred Manske]] for a salary of $70 CAD per month. Meanwhile, he was enrolled in the Canadian Army due to conscription.<ref group=A name="Côté, chap. 3">{{harvsp|Côté|1979|loc=chap. 3}}.</ref> In May 1941, he was mobilized at the Saint-Jérôme military camp. His training as a doughboy was interrupted when the federal government decided to employ all technicians in the war effort. He therefore returned to the NRC labs. He entered the service of the Canadian Army's ''Chemical Warfare Laboratories'' in January 1943. When he returned home to Hull at the end of the war, he was a [[sergeant major]].<ref group=A name="Côté, chap. 3" />