A War Guest in Canada (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	W.A.B. Douglas • Roger Sarty • Cynthia Comacchio
Dimensions:	203 x 133mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-77112-368-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-77112-368-0
Barcode:	9781771123686

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