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A War Guest in Canada (Paperback)
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A War Guest in Canada (Paperback)
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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 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.
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