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From: "jay king" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] New Book on Canadian War Brides
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:43:17 -0500
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I am a war bride who came to Canada we celebrated our 65th wedding
ann.last year but we nearly made 66yrs
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From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: [WARBRIDES] New Book on Canadian War Brides


> Dear War Brides and War Bride children:
>
> My name is Melynda Jarratt and many of you know me as the historian of the
> Canadian War Brides through my volunteer work as the webmaster of
> www.CanadianWarBrides.com.
>
> Currently, I am writing a book on Canadian War Brides for Tempus
Publishing,
> a leading English publisher with a stellar reputation for its
publications
> on Archaeology and History. Tempus is associated with the BBC History
> Magazine's Community History Awards and the English Heritage Festival of
> History.
>
> My book will focus on British War Brides (England, Scotland, Wales and
> Northern Ireland) who married Canadian servicemen they met during the
Second
> World War. It will be published in England for a British audience. I am
> interested in hearing from any War Brides who feel they have a compelling
> story to tell about their experiences meeting, falling in love with and
> marrying a Canadian overseas, about leaving their family behind, of their
> journey to Canada on board the War Bride ships and settling into life
here.
>
> I hope to hear from women representing every province and territory in
> Canada and I invite War Bride children, whose mothers have passed away, to
> tell their mother's stories. I am particularly interested in hearing from
> those who have never appeared in print before. My deadline for submission
of
> the manuscript is March 1 so if you would like to particicpate, I need to
> hear from you very soon.
>
> If you are one of these women, or you are the son or daughter of a War
> Bride, please contact me by phone TOLL FREE at 1-877-886-2836, by phone at
> 506-450-4567, by cel at 506-440-4567, by email at
>
>
> I may also be reached at home at 506-455-3568.
>
> My mailing address is :
>
> Melynda Jarratt
> 510 Gibson Street
> Fredericton, New Brunswick
> E3A 4E9
>
> For those who do not know of me or my work, I have been documenting the
War
> Bride experience since 1987, when I first began working on my Masters
Thesis
> on the War Brides of New Brunswick. Over the past two decades I have
worked
> in a mainly volunteer capacity on numerous War Bride projects, from the
> History Television documentary film War Brides: From Romance to Reality
> (2001), to the History of Cunard Exhibition on board the Queen Mary II
> (2003), from Canada Post's War Bride Commemorative Envelope (2005) to the
> BBC Radio 4 documentary "The Pilgrim Mothers" (2005). But what I am most
> proud of is having had the opportunity to play a leading role in seeing
Year
> of the War Bride 2006 declared in six of ten provinces across Canada (New
> Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and
> Nova Scotia), with a seventh (Saskatachewan) declaring November 2006
"Month"
> of the War Bride. This could not have happened without the extensive
network
> of War Brides, their children and grand-children who lobbied their
> respective provincial governments to have War Brides recognized in 2006.
>
> Thank you for your time and I do hope to hear from you very soon!
>
>
> Melynda Jarratt
> BA, MA (History), Diploma in Digital Media
> www.CanadianWarBrides.com
>
>
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