A War Guest in Canada
A War Guest in Canada
Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Leila Grobel
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Barry Kazimer
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Linda Leitch
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Mary Therrien
, Agnes Marshall
, Beth Dekoker
, Noelle Walsh
, Joshua Lewis
, Andrea Pole
, Judith Pearson
, Sandra Furlotte
, Natasa Ilic
, Sarah Schwartz
, Marjorie Roy
, Patricia Johnson
, Dani Kat
, Claudie Léveillé
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Stacy Stafford
, Amanda Schempp
, Deana Bueley
, Hoda Montazeri
, Alice Meems
, Melissa Kohlman
, Joe Mitchell
, Vicki Bedford
, Karen Nordrum
, Karen Kendrick
, Heather Belliveau
, Joan Clare
, Jen Smith
, Prabh Toor
, Kym Marsh
, Mairi Lester
, Katherine Krige
, Rhona Brinkman
, Darlene Foster
, Adrienne Stevenson
, John Bell
, Marilyn Sorensen
, Christine Lion
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Mary Lester
, Diana Richardson
, Sandra Storey
, BJ Underwood
, Anne Range
, Kathryn Galan
, Robert Hykawy
, Denise Duvall
, Susan Jang
, Paula Ritchie
, Claire Gear
, Randi Ann Doll
, Laura Patterson
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Ellen Clarke
, Deb Philippon
, Kevin Smith
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Tyra Antle
, Jane Graham
, Kenzie Woitowicz
, Shawna Moodie
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Debra Chandler
, Debra Fisher
, Mary Danieli
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Trish Bowering
, Sandra Perry
, Ken Gilmour
, Jessica Murray
, Andrea Gillespie
, Crystal Inwood
, Melissa Poremba
, Irenee R Anderson
, Kim Cappellina
, Mary Trujillo
, Janet Meisner
, Susan Toy
, Rose Hately
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Shari Dalton
, Paula Adam
, Maureen Brownlee
, Michelle Onyango
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Margaret McKay
, Patricia McKeown
, Kate Kostandoff
, Yolande Thivierge
, Donna Gamache
, Maria Mclean
, Debbie Youngman
, Lynn Andrews
, Mary Campbell
, diana kirkwood
, Benita Hartwell
, Janice Cournoyer
editor@49thShelf.com
During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B (Alec) Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to his mother back home in London.
Alec wrote home every week, although sometimes he forgot to post his letters, and they were delayed, and some letters did not get through. Occasionally his godmother and host, Mavis Fry, would add comments and write her own more detailed letters. Also included are letters from Lillian Kingston, who brought Alec to North America in 1940.
This is a story of exposure, at an impressionable age, to ocean passage in wartime, the sights and sounds of New York, the totally new and unfamiliar world of Canada, the wonderful excitement of passage home in a Woolworth Aircraft Carrier as a "Guest of the Admiralty," and his eventful return to a world he had left behind three years before.
