Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bernice Fells, right, daughter of war bride Jean Fells, laid a wreath at the new pedestal Thursday afternoon in Victoria Park.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tale of two war brides: Sylvia Power, left, with huband Doug, and Liliann Wilton, right, with husband Alan. Both couples met ...

A Via Rail train carried a group of war brides to Halifax to revisit the site where they landed in Canada 60 years ago. CBC's Brian DuBreuil joined that trip in Montreal on Nov. 6 and covered the trip ...

RMS Aquitania arriving at Pier 21 in Halifax on April 10,1946. Margaret Button is seen in the inset photo in the light-coloured coat. "She said she was given [the coat] new for the arrival in Canada," ...

Dorothy Autridge walked anxiously up the gangplank of the giant passenger ship docked in Vancouver’s harbour, clutching her one-way ticket to New Zealand and her beloved hope chest. It was December, ...

Dorothy Marshall is practising her curtsy in her Toronto living room. It is a shallow curtsy, not the deep bend a younger woman might attempt when meeting the Queen. Ms. Marshall has a “bonky knee” ...

For nearly a century, Union Station has played a significant role as a gateway to Toronto and Canada. In the days before commercial air travel became popular and accessible to the masses, the ...

Bev Tosh’s mother was a war bride, but not the way you would expect. After the Second World War, more than 48,000 women, mostly from the United Kingdom, came to Canada to be with their Canadian ...

I am a Dutch war bride and married the love of my life in Holland in 1945. Many years have gone by and most of the war brides are 90-plus and widows. I lost Lloyd, my husband, a year ago after being ...

WATERLOO REGION — Victorious soldiers came home from the Second World War with more than scars and skills. Many came home to start families with women they met while fighting overseas. The public ...

At the end of the Second World War, more than 45,000 young women left their homes and made the journey across the Atlantic. They were war brides. Many of them knew very little of their new homes and ...