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From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] Vernon Museum War Bride Display
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:01:20 -0300
In-Reply-To: <000701c6aa9e$55232880$6400a8c0@mitchhhakcig8q>


Hi Annette, no I haven't seen the exhibit because I'm in New Brunswick but
the text description has a familiar ring to it - AND NO WONDER - it's the
entire first four paragraphs of my thesis verbatim ..... and no citation of
the source.... GRRRRR. Guess nobody told them about how to make a footnote.
And a museum at that! If imitation is the best form of flattery, I am doing
quite well this year. An on line magazine in Britain did the exact same
thing (but used several more paragraphs of the first two pages of my thesis)
until I gave them heck and numerous other magazines, newspapers etc. have
done the same. Oh well. I guess I better just grin and bear it if the end
result is increased awareness of the War Bride story. :]

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: Annette Fulford <>
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Subject: [WarBrides] Vernon Museum War Bride Display
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:14:02 -0700

Has anyone checked out this display and could tell me more about it?

Annette

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THE YEAR OF THE WARBRIDE
July, 2006 - February, 2007

The story of the Canadian war brides and their journey to Canada is one of
the most fascinating and romantic of World War II. Why nearly 45,000 British
and European women would leave behind everything that was familiar to start
a new life in post-war Canada is a story worth telling.

The war brides came from all over the United Kingdom and from nearly every
country on the European continent, but the vast majority (93%) were
British - and the reasons are fairly obvious. Canadians were among the first
to come to the assistance of Britain after war was declared in 1939 and they
spent more time there than any other member of the Allied Forces.

In fact, just 43 days after Canadian soldiers arrived in December 1939, they
celebrated the first marriage between a British woman and a Canadian
serviceman at Farnborough Church in the Aldershot area.

That marriage, and the 48,000 which followed over the next six years, formed
part of the most unusual emigrant wave to hit Canada's shores: All women,
all of the same generation, and mostly British, these nearly 45,000 war
brides are an important part of Canadian history that has gone relatively
unnoticed by historians and journalists alike.

The Vernon Museum, in collaboration with surviving war brides still living
in the North Okanagan, plan to launch an exhibition that will tell the story
of this fascinating segment of history.


http://www.vernonmuseum.ca/events/index.php



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