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A War Guest in Canada
W.A.B. Douglas
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Éditeur:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2023
2023
ISBN-13:
9781771123693
Description:
<p><strong>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. </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>A War Guest in Canada</em> includes a foreword by Cynthia Comacchio and an introduction by Roger Sarty.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>A War Guest in Canada</em> includes a foreword by Cynthia Comacchio and an introduction by Roger Sarty.</p>
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