(Risking it all for Love after World War II).
by Cynthia J Faryon
A War Bride's Story
Price: Cad$ 9.95
ISBN 1-55153-959-4
'I was like a lime in an apple barrel.' Gwen Cramer, about life on a Saskatchewan farm. Gwendoline Cramer was one of the 48,000 war brides transported to Canada by the Canadian government between 1942 and 1947. Many of them were escorted across the water and handed over to their husbands with nothing more than a handshake and a cookbook. Following her heart to rural Saskatchewan, Gwen felt like a fish out of water. She couldn't milk a cow or cook with a wood stove. And then she had the in-laws to contend with...
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