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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: [WARBRIDES] War bride exhibit opens at York Sunbury Museum, NB
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:15:54 -0800

The Daily Gleaner
Fredericton, New Brunswick
November 2, 2006
page C6

War bride exhibit opens at York Sunbury Museum

The York Sunbury Museum is launching an exhibition on the history of New
Brunswick's war brides at a reception on the evening before Remembrance Day,
Friday, Nov. 10, from 4 -6 p.m.

War brides from across the province and the public are invited to attend.
The exhibition celebrates the 60th anniversary of the war brides in Canada.

T.J. Burke, attorney general and minister of justice, will officially open
the exhibit. It will continue until the end of November and will reopen in
April for the summer season.

Between 1942 and 1948, a total of 43,454 war brides and 20,997 children were
brought to Canada from Britain and Europe.

The majority arrived in 1946 on special war-bride ships that docked at
Halifax's Pier 21.

Of these, an estimated 3,000 war brides and their children came to New
Brunswick.

The exhibit will trace the war-bride experience, from meeting Canadians
overseas and falling in love to the marriages that followed.

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