Wartime Wednesdays today features an inspirational interview with Jessie Middleton of Abbotsford, British Columbia, now aged 98. She nursed our...
Hi folks, New member here. I collect WWII photography and recently came across a great image of Canadian soldiers returning from the war. My...
Happy Valentine's Day, wartime lovers... And enjoy these stories from my inbox. Click on the link below to read Wartime Wednesdays.
A ROOKIE PILOT'S NIGHTMARE -- Today is the 75th anniversary of Canada's entrance into World War Two. To honour the occasion, read my post today...
WHAT IF -- A staged Nazi invasion of Winnipeg on Feb. 19, 1942 involving 3,500 people called IF Day frightened city residents into making a record...
THROUGH THE LENS -- Not everyone went to war, but for this farm girl from Alberta, joining the RCAF and becoming a photographer was the biggest...
TWO LETTERS FROM FRANCE -- What a difference a month makes! When you read these two letters written by my great-uncle Robert Burns Florence in...
My godfather Colin Greener stood five foot three in his boots, but he had the heart of a lion. In World War One he fought in the trenches, was...
THE GUYS WHO WOULDN'T FIGHT . . . Almost 11,000 Canadian men refused, mainly for religious reasons, to perform military duties during World War...
KIDS ON THE HOME FRONT -- There wasn't any way to protect children from the horrors of a world at war, so they became willing participants...
Richard C. Fuller was just seventeen when he began training as a signaller. Before war was declared, he joined the Canadian Army and eventually...
Canadians didn't complain when they spent five years on rations, because they knew many others had it a lot worse. To read my weekly blog post...
The Star Weekly news magazine was a hugely popular publication produced by the Toronto Star. The wartime issues carried all kinds of interesting...
George Crewe, former Boy Telegraphist with the Royal Canadian Navy, remembers his days at sea. Click on the Wartime Wednesdays link below to read...
While the boys were away, thousands of Canadian girls as young as sixteen were training themselves, at their own expense, to defend our native...
A bracelet mystery, a missing family, memorial windows and more wartime fiction on today's Wartime Wednesdays at www.elinorflorence.com/blog/118330.
"Damn this war anyhow, why can't people just get along?" This was written in a letter by young airman Jim Barnes of Battleford, Saskatchewan, on...