Mystery solved ...
I’ve just had a reply from Laurel Halladay at the University Calgary and it turns out that the photo in question is of "CBC Radio Scene of 'The Army Show', Ottawa, Ontario, 21 January 1944" and not the ‘Tin Hats’, after all. The reference is National Archives of Canada photo (PA 152120). The page on the Calgary website includes two Tin Hats pictures, both identified as female impersonators. Laurel Halladay has done a thesis entitled "'Ladies and Gentlemen, Soldiers and Artists:' Canadian Military Entertainers, 1939-1946". Another source of information is "The Canadian Entertainers of World War II" by W. Ray Stephen.
Mike
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