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From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] Canadian troops/UK
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:55:03 -0300
In-Reply-To: <BF7B1B1E.2285%btosh@shaw.ca>


This is THE book you are looking for and I'd recommend it to everyone else.
Great photos! I used it quite a bit for my thesis on the war brides.

Stacey, C. P. and Barbara M. Wilson The half-million the Canadians in
Britain, 1939 - 1946. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 1987, xii,
198p., illustrated with period photos throughout; 7 x 10 inch oblong cloth
boards

Here's a bio of CP Stacey, known as "Canada's foremost military historian."
Barbara M. Wilson was the former librarian at the National Archives in
Ottawa so both their credentials are impeccable and they actually use
footnotes!
_________

Colonel Charles Perry Stacey O.C., O.BE., CD, BA, AM, Ph.D., LL.D., D.Litt,
D.Sc Mil, FRSC 1906-1989
Colonel Charles Perry Stacey was born at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1906.
He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he received a BA in
History in 1924, and at the Corpus Christi College of Oxford University,
where he took a second Bachelor's degree in history in 1929. Graduate
studies at Princeton University led to a doctorate in 1933. He was a member
of the Department of History at Princeton , 1933-1940.

Colonel Stacey first joined the Canadian Corps of Signals in 1924. In
November, 1940, he was promoted to Major and appointed Historical Officer,
Canadian Military Headquarters in London, England. He served oversees until
1945, when he was appointed Director of the Historical Section of the
General Staff. He remained in that position until his retirement from the
Army in 1959. Colonel Stacey was Professor of History at the University of
Toronto, 1959-1975, and later Emeritus Professor at that University. In
1965-1966, he answered the call to return to the Department of National
Defence in order to oversee the first year of operations of the integrated
Directorate of History.

A fine Historical craftsman, exhaustive researcher, and elegant stylist,
Colonel Stacey was for decades Canada's foremost military historian. He
wrote for Official volumes on the Second World War along with several other
major contributions to Canadian History, and his memoirs, A Date with
History. The Minister of National Defence said on the occasion of Colonel
Stacey's eightieth birthday that "history, in no small measure because of
years of achievements, continues to be a vital part of the Department of
National Defence's commitment to Canada".



Melynda



Melynda Jarratt, BA, MA (History)
Diploma in Digital Media and Design
Webmaster: http://www.canadianwarbrides.com and http://www.project-roots.com
Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of
World War Two is available in English at
http://www.project-roots.com/books.html and in Dutch at
http://www.uitgeverijpica.nl/index.html?page=achterbleven




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From: Bev Tosh <>
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Subject: [WarBrides] Canadian troops/UK
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:35:26 -0600

Where I can go to find an accurate account of the number of Canadian service
personal who passed through the UK during WW II?

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated because estimates seem to
vary widely. Thanks,
Bev Tosh


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