A War Guest in Canada

A War Guest in Canada
Author: W. A. B. Douglas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781771123686

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A collection of letters from Londoner W.A.B. (Alec) Douglas, a child war guest in Canada between 1940 and 1943, to his mother back home. Details the excitement of the voyage and his years in Toronto with the Fry family.

A War Guest in Canada

A War Guest in Canada
Author: W.A.B. Douglas
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1771123702

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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. A War Guest in Canada includes a foreword by Cynthia Comacchio and an introduction by Roger Sarty.

A War Guest in Canada

A War Guest in Canada
Author: Tony Bickersteth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2007*
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN:

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The Guest Children

The Guest Children
Author: Geoffrey Bilson
Publisher: Saskatoon : Fifth House
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Exiles from the War

Exiles from the War
Author: Jean Little
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 9780545986175

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When a frightened girl and boy arrive on the Twiss family's doorstep to escape the Blitz, Charlotte wonders how she will keep her war guests from missing their parents back home, or from cowering every time a plane flies overhead. Though the war is being waged across the Atlantic, Charlotte begins to feel its danger, as her brother George defies their parents and enlists in the Navy. After months of receiving letters from overseas, suddenly there is no word from him -- has the unthinkable happened and George's ship been sunk by a German submarine? Charlotte Twiss's diary shows her innermost feelings about her life on the Canadian homefront, as she helps her war guests "settle in" and wonders whether her brother is safe from harm.

The Sky is Falling

The Sky is Falling
Author: Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1989
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

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The experiences of a young girl and her small brother who are evacuated to Canada at the beginning of World War II and find that they will be staying with complete strangers.

The Guests Of War Trilogy

The Guests Of War Trilogy
Author: Kit Pearson
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143183648

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Sky Is Falling It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler’s army. Still, ten-year-old Norah Stoakes is shocked when her parents decide to send her and her younger brother Gavin to Canada as war guests. Travelling across the ocean is an adventure, but Norah’s new life in Canada is a bigger challenge than she ever expected. Until, that is, Norah discovers a surprising responsibility that helps her accept her new country and her new home. Looking at the Moon Norah has lived in Canada with the Ogilvies for three years when an Ogilvie cousin comes to spend the summer. Andrew is nineteen, handsome and intelligent, and Norah thinks she may be falling in love for the first time. But even now the war threatens to ruin her happiness... The Lights Go on Again It has been five years since Norah and Gavin arrived in Canada and now that the war is ending, they will soon be going back to England. Norah is eager to see her parents again, but ten-year-old Gavin barely remembers them. He doesn’t want to leave his Canadian family, his two best friends and his dog. Then something happens that forces Gavin to make the most difficult decision of his life.

The Comic Book War

The Comic Book War
Author: Jacqueline Guest
Publisher: Coteau Books
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1550508016

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It's 1943 and World War II is raging. 15-year-old Robert Tourond is home in Calgary, but his three brothers are all fighting the Nazis. Robert follows the exploits of his favourite comic book heroes who also battle bad guys in the comics Robert spends his allowance on. When Robert finds a meteorite in Nose Hill Park near his home, in the same week that a meteorite features in his heroes' stories, Robert is convinced that a magical link exists between them, adn that the superheroes will protect his brothers. Robert has a nemesis of his own on the streets of Calgary - a girl they call "Crazy Charlie." When Robert gets a job delivering telegrams, Charlie does too, cutting into his profits. Then they discover exactly what those telegrams they're delivering have for the recipients. Then Charlie has to deliver one to Robert's house. Can Robert and his heroes really protect all three brothers and bring them home? What will happen if reality comes crashing into his world, like a meteorite falling from space? Who will help then?

Looking At The Moon

Looking At The Moon
Author: Kit Pearson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0143186299

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Norah, an English "war guest" living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. She'll spend it at the Ogilvie's lavish cottage in Muskoka—a whole month of freedom, swimming, adventures with her "cousins"... But this isn't an ordinary summer. It's 1943, and the war is still going on. Sometimes Norah can't even remember what her parents look like—she hasn't seen them in three years. And she has turned thirteen, which means life seems to be getting more complicated. Then a distant Ogilvie cousin, Andrew, arrives. He is nineteen, handsome, intelligent, and Norah thinks she may be falling in love for the first time. But Andrew has his own problems: he doesn't want to fight in the war, and yet he knows it's what his family and friends expect of him. What the two of them learn from each other makes for a gentle, moving story, the second book in a trilogy that began with the award-winning The Sky Is Falling.

Canadian Battlefields of the First World War

Canadian Battlefields of the First World War
Author: Terry Copp
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781926804163

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Revision of: Canadian battlefields 1915-1918: a visitor's guide / Terry Copp, Matt Symes, Nick Lachance. -- Waterloo, Ont.: LCMSDS, A2011.