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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: [WARBRIDES] Durham Region news, October 31, 2006
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:25:56 -0800


Durham Region news
Oct 31, 2006

An Oshawa war bride remembers
Legion hosts special event Nov. 2

By Jillian Follert

OSHAWA -- Sixty years ago this week, Martha Stauffer caught her first
glimpse of Oshawa.

After a seven day journey across the Atlantic and a long train ride
from Halifax, the weary young traveller stood at the CN Rail station on
Simcoe Street and took in her new home.

"I had been so afraid to leave my family that I loved - but I loved my
new husband more," she says. "I left everything behind to be with him. It
was just what you did at that time."

That time was 1946, a year after the end of the Second World War. Mrs.
Stauffer was one of 48,000 war brides who married Canadian servicemen
overseas, then followed them to a new life in Canada.

Most Canadian war brides were from Britain, but a few thousand came
from France, Belgium, Germany and other parts of Europe. To mark the 60th
anniversary of war brides arriving in Canada, many provincial governments
have declared 2006 the Year of the War Bride.

In Oshawa, war brides and women veterans will share their stories Nov.
2 at an event called "My Grandmother's Wartime Stories," hosted by the
Ladies Auxiliary of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 43.

To read the remainder of the article, click on
http://www.durhamregion.com/dr/regions/oshawa/story/3753736p-4339975c.html


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