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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: [WARBRIDES] Guelph Mercury, November 4, 2006
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:39:31 -0800

Guelph Mercury
November 4, 2006

Left alone: With many of their husbands dead or ill, war brides to revisit
'gateway' to
Canada

LAURA THOMPSON

It was August 1946 and Patricia Butts was a young war bride who had just
landed with her four-month-old daughter at Pier 21 in Halifax. Her husband,
Ted, who she hadn't seen for two months, waited on the dock with his mother
and father, both salt-of-the-earth Nova Scotians eager to meet their
daughter-in-law and new grandchild.

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