Page 6 - War Brides

Mrs. J.W. Perry, a war bride, and her daughter Sheila A war bride and
aboard S.S. Letitia en route to Canada, where Mrs. Perry her child arrive
will join her husband, 2 April 1946. at Bonaventure
Courtesy of: Library and Archives Canada Station in
Canada, 4 March
1946.
Courtesy of:
Library and
Archives Canada

(Below) Carole Naslovar told the story of her mother, a English war bride,
and her father, who suffered from post traumatic stress and passed away at
the age of 38, 2012.
Courtesy of: Canadian Museum of Immigration

On September 18, 1946 my mother Barbara Isobel Mary Zuke and myself Carol Ann Zuke, entered Canada in
“ small places began to make her very nervous. When she came to Sault Ste Marie with me, she got off the train and
Halifax. She was a war bride. (...) My mother told me about the trip over. The rough seas, and how all the babies
would be in little hammocks above the mother's bunks. She said I was a very good baby, thank goodness because
she was very sea sick. She was apprehensive but looking forward to a new life in Canada. When she left the ship
she did not feel too bad. But then as she traveled to Sault Ste Marie, the bushland, the vastness of Canada and the

cried. The town was small, Dad was there but she felt very lonely for her family and the life she knew in London.