Blackouts To Bright Lights : Canadian War Brides Stories

Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Brides Stories records the experiences of Canadian war brides who married servicemen during the Second World War. Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence interviewed more than thirty women for the book, documenting their early lives, wartime activities, courtships with Canadian servicemen, and journeys from Britain to Canada. The accounts provide first-person perspectives on the circumstances surrounding wartime marriages and the challenges of relocation and settlement in Canada. Published in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war, the volume brings together the individual recollections of thirty-six Canadian war brides.