Melynda Jarratt: 4 books
Letters from Beauly
Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years,...
Captured Hearts
New Brunswick's War Brides
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you’ve ever known behind — your family, friends, and way of life — to begin a new...
War Brides
The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2009
For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world...
Voices of the Left Behind
Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of...