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Douglas, W. A. B. (William Alexander Binny), 1929-
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Douglas, W. A. B. (William Alexander Binny), 1929- -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Canada.
Children and war -- Canada.
Canada -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
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Douglas, W. A. B. (William Alexander Binny), 1929-
Douglas, W. A. B. (William Alexander Binny), 1929- -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Canada.
Children and war -- Canada.
Canada -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
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A war guest in Canada / W.A.B. Douglas ; foreword by Cynthia Comacchio ; introduction by Roger Sarty.
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Douglas, W. A. B. (William Alexander Binny), 1929-
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023.
Call #:
940
.5316
D737w
Subjects
Douglas, W. A. B. (William Alexander Binny), 1929- -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Canada.
Children and war -- Canada.
Canada -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
Series
Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
ISBN:
9781771123686 (pbk.)
Description:
xxiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"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 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."--Publisher.
Other authors:
Comacchio, Cynthia R., 1957-
Sarty, Roger, 1952-
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