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From: "Christine" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] NB MLA to Introduce Private Members Bill for Year of War Bride
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:11:50 -0500
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You know there were a lot of tales of woe that came from War Brides
situations.....I am not a child of a War Bride.... who, to me were a hearty
group.....I am I guess from lack of a better word an immigrant......my
parents came to Canada with family in tow in the late 50's......we settled
in Quebec......I remember as an older teenager Mum being in hospital, and a
lady was brought into the room where Mum was, well this lady spoke English
to Mum's delight and to the lady's.....turned out she was a War Bride....who
had had no communication with anyone English since her arrival in
Canada......This lady lived not far from the small community where we lived
and there was a lot of British folk living there by virtue of a British
company who opened up a factory and had recruited men from their British
firm......she did not live the dream life, I do remember that....but to a
eighteen year old I did not pay a whole lot of attention, just that this
lady managed to leave her husband and go back to England after that stay in
the hospital......he probably regretted the day he brought her to the
hospital!

I think the Year of the War Bride is being based on 1946 because it was the
year the greatest number of Brides sailed for Canada, between January 1946
and December 1946 there were a total of 45,320 brides and children arrive.

Christine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Button" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] NB MLA to Introduce Private Members Bill for Year
of War Bride


> I'll defer to others more knowledgeable however given both red tape and
> the large numbers coming to Canada I believe most came in 1946.
>
> For example - with my parents (my father an RCAF pilot and my mother in
> the WAAF) they first had to get their "permission to marry". They were
> married in Stranraer Scotland June 2, 1945. By July 1945 my dad was back
> in Canada. However it was not until April 1946 that my mother arrived in
> Halifax on the Acquitannia.
>
> According to my mum the passage of so much time was not uncommon but was
> also problematic. Another warbride who travelled with my mum by train from
> Halifax to Toronto was met by her Canadian "husband" who told her he no
> longer loved her and was living with someone else. My mum - only 23 and
> from a small village in County Durham found herself running around Union
> Station in Toronto trying to find a Red Cross worker to help her
> distraught companion.
>
> Larry Button (Dundas, Ontario)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [WarBrides] NB MLA to Introduce Private Members Bill for Year
> of War Bride
>
>
>> Sorry but didn't a lot of war brides go to Canada in 1945 when the War
>> ended - so 2005 is the 60th Anniversary not 2006
>>
>> Take Care
>>
>> Beth
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:00 PM
>> Subject: [WarBrides] NB MLA to Introduce Private Members Bill for Year of
>> War Bride
>>
>>
>>> Hi Everyone. I have confirmation today that New Brunswick MLA TJ Burke,
>>> grandson of British War Bride Jean Paul, will be the first to introduce
>>> a private members bill in the New Brunswick legislature to officially
>>> recognize 2006 as the Year of the War Bride in New Brunswick and to mark
>>> the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the War Brides in Canada.
>>>
>>> Now we have to do the same across the country in every province and
>>> territory. Who knows MLAs in their province? Who knows if there are MLAs
>>> with a war bride in their family? These are the people we have to
>>> target.
>>>
>>> Melynda
>>>
>>> Melynda Jarratt, BA, MA (History)
>>> Diploma in Digital Media and Design
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