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War Brides

The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved

By: Melynda Jarratt

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War Brides

The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved

By: Melynda Jarratt

For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world in the 1940’s. For many brides, the decision to leave their family and home to move to a country thousands of miles away with a man they hardly knew brought forth ensuing happiness. For others, the outcome was much different, and the darker side of the story reveals the infidelity, domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism and divorce that many lived through. War Brides draws on original archival documents, personal correspondence, and key first hand accounts to tell the amazing story of the War Brides in their own words-and shows the love, passion, tragedy and spirit of adventure of thousand of British women.

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1770703888

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War Brides

The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved

By: Melynda Jarratt

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The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved

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Voices of the Left Behind

Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

By: Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Melynda Jarratt

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Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

By: Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Melynda Jarratt

The personal stories of nearly 50 war children helped by Project Roots.

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1550025856

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Voices of the Left Behind

Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

By: Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Melynda Jarratt

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Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II

By: Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Melynda Jarratt

The personal stories of nearly 50 war children helped by Project Roots.

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Letters from Beauly

Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945

By: Melynda Jarratt

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Letters from Beauly

Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945

By: Melynda Jarratt

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years, Pat served as camp cook with 15 Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps near the ancient town of Beauly, Scotland. A middle-aged New Brunswick farmer and lumberman with a third-grade education, Pat saw more of the world than he had ever dreamed of, visiting ancient battlefields he had learned about as a child, travelling to his ancestral Ireland, and attending a course of lectures in British history at Oxford University. While in Scotland, Pat regularly corresponded with his family in New Brunswick. Drawing from this unique collection of more than three hundred letters, as well as hundreds of archival documents and photographs, Melynda Jarratt provides a rare glimpse of what life was like for Canadian servicemen overseas and for their relatives at home. Letters from Beauly is volume 23 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series, co-published with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society.

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New Brunswick Military Heritag

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0864928939

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Voices of the Left Behind

Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War Two

By: Melynda Jarratt,Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Project Roots

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Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War Two

By: Melynda Jarratt,Olga Rains,Lloyd Rains,Project Roots

Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of National Defence, Veterans Affairs, and other Canadian institutions. Letters from the war children to the Military Personnel Records Unit of the National Archives of Canada illustrate the historic pattern of denial. What these institutions all have in common is their consistent refusal to help war children find their Canadian fathers. Introductory essays frame the subject and give a historical context to the tragic situations these women and their children found themselves in.

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Fredericton, N.B. : Project Roots

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097357030X

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9780973570304

Book's by Melynda Jarratt

War Brides

War Brides

War Brides

War Brides

Voices of the Left Behind

Voices of the Left Behind

Voices of the Left Behind

Voices of the Left Behind

Letters from Beauly

Letters from Beauly

Voices of the Left Behind

Voices of the Left Behind

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