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From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
Subject: NB MLA Introduces Motion in Legislature, Dec 9, 2005
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:11:30 -0400


For immediate release
December 9, 2005


BURKE CALLS ON LEGISLATURE TO RECOGNIZE 2006 AS YEAR OF THE WAR BRIDE

Fredericton Opposition MLA T.J. Burke (LIB Fredericton North) has
introduced a motion to have 2006 recognized as the Year of the War Bride.

This year we marked the Year of the Veteran, said Burke. Recognizing
2006 as the Year of the War Bride seems to be a fitting tribute.

Burke himself is the grandson of a war bride. His grandmother, Jean Paul,
was a British war bride who married his grandfather, Charles Paul, in 1943
and arrived in Halifax in May 1946. They went by War Bride train to McAdam,
NB where they were met by the Roman Catholic priest who brought them by
canoe to the Tobique Indian Reserve in northern New Brunswick.

My grandmother was one of nearly 50,000 war brides who traveled far from
home as young wives and mothers, said Burke. Each of these women has made
an incredible contributions to her home province and to our country.

It is estimated that nearly one in 30 Canadians have a war bride in their
family tree. 2006 is the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the majority of
War Brides in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax.

The motion is scheduled for debate on Thursday, December 15. If it passes,
New Brunswick will be the first provincial Legislative Assembly to
officially recognize 2006 as the Year of the War Bride.

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Media Contact: Marie-Andre Bolduc, Office of the Official Opposition, (506)
453-2548.

Mellynda 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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