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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: [WARBRIDES] Burnt food and outhouses: a war bride's life
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:07:50 -0800

Halifax Daily News
November 6, 2006

Burnt food and outhouses: a war bride's life

Amid celebrations of 60 years in Canada, one wife tells her tale

By Rachel Boomer
The Daily News

SPRYFIELD - Joan Schnare spent her first night in Canada sobbing along with
the lonely sound of a train whistle, as it chugged past her in-laws' Chester
home.

It was Dec. 13, 1946.

The 22-year-old war bride had arrived at Pier 21 that day - five days ahead
of her husband, army mechanic Cpl. Douglas Schnare.

Married for just a year, she'd had to meet her in-laws alone, then adjust to
a place far different from her bustling London hometown.

"I laid down in bed, and I cried and I cried," Schnare remembered last week
in her Spryfield home.

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