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ARCHIVE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA a

395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0N4 t 001 613 996 5115 w bac-lac.gc.ca/eng

Find out more information about the national archive’s extensive records on this topic, mostly in RG24 and available only on microfilm, on its website at bit.ly/lac-war-brides.

BOOKS The Half-Million: The Canadians in Britain, 1939–1946

CP Stacey and Barbara M Wilson University of Toronto Press, 1987 This insightful yet highly readable examination of Canadian visitors’ experiences of life in wartime Britain, warts and all, is based on research in government records.

War Brides

Melynda Jarratt

Dundurn Press, 2009

Jarratt tells the stories of the war brides in their own words. The book is a much-expanded version of her 1995 MA thesis The War Brides of New Brunswick, which can be downloaded for free from her website (see below).

MUSEUM THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION AT PIER 21

a 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4P7

t 001 902 425 7770 e info@pier21.ca

w pier21.ca/home

The museum is on Pier 21, the location where war brides were welcomed to Canada, and 380,000 Canadian military personnel left the country during the war. Its site has images of artefacts and brides’ stories: bit.ly/pier21-war-brides.

WEBSITE CANADIAN WAR BRIDES

w canadianwarbrides.com Melynda Jarratt’s website is an excellent source of information. Her MA thesis about the topic is available at bit.ly/cwb-thesis.