People, I just had to share with you the news that my novel Bird's Eye View was named a Canadian Bestseller last week by both the Toronto Star,...
Here's an article about a Canadian woman named Vi Milstead who joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in England. These women were really...
Stan Stachera of Perdue, Saskatchewan, was just 16 when he ran away from home and joined the Canadian Army. He served as a tank driver in Italy...
History buffs with a passion for the Second World War take it to the limit – dressing in vintage uniforms, sleeping in tents, eating rations, and...
The Canadian Army's first woman photographer, a female MP who lobbied for better pay for servicewomen, and the first aboriginal woman to join the...
One of the most beautiful poems ever written was composed in a Spitfire, 75 years ago. The poet John Gillespie Magee Junior was only 19 years old....
My fact-based and well-researched novel Bird's Eye View is about a young Canadian woman who joins the air force and becomes an interpreter of...
This remarkable veteran flew with the Fleet Air Arm of the British Navy. His most exciting mission was to bomb the German battleship, the Tirpitz....
Hundreds of thousands of families were reunited for Christmas in 1945 after the long and lonely years of war. See some wonderful homecoming images...
Thank you, grasshopper! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Just a few ideas for the wartime vintage history buff on your list. See them here: www.elinorflorence.com/blog/wartime-gifts-2015.
Violet Milstead was one of the elite few Canadian women who served as a ferry pilot in wartime, flying 47 different types of aircraft. Read her...
Great advice on these sites, I will follow it myself. Thank you!
If you email his contact info and whatever else you have to elinor1@telus.net, I will put him on my list. I can't promise anything. Allan Cameron...
Here are ten interviews I completed with people I am calling my Living Legends, plus tips for interviewing elderly people for best results. Please...
Alice Spackman of OkotoksThis, Alberta, kept a scrapbook of wartime memorabilia, and it has now been turned into a book called She Made Them...
Our furry friends provided comfort to the troops in wartime. Click here for some fascinating photos. www.elinorflorence.com/blog/wartime-animals....
I didn't ask my veteran Ed Kluczny about the percentage possibilities -- but I will check a few other sources and endeavour to answer your...
There’s a reason why it’s called The Greatest Generation – and Yvonne Valleau Wildman of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, is a shining example. She had a...
Seventy-one years later, the niece of a young navigator killed in a bombing raid finally reconnects with her uncle's pilot on that fateful night....
