ON THIS DAY

February 10, 1946 – War brides arrived in Halifax from England. The term “war brides” refers to women who married Canadian servicemen overseas during the Second World War. A Heritage Minute on the liberation of the Netherlands remembers one such love story. After the war, the Canadian government provided these women with free sea and rail passage from their original homes to their destinations in Canada, and by 1948, over fortythree thousand wives and more than twenty thousand children had immigrated.