by Laurie Ness Gordon | Sep 1, 2023 | Writing
Who is this Victorian woman? It’s hard to tell from her current silhouette that she came from the poorest section of East London. When her father moved north to work in the mills in Manchester, leaving his family behind, she was fortunate to he hired as a maid...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jun 12, 2023 | Writing
My entry, The War Guests, earned Honourable Mention in the Royal Canadian Legion District E Senior Literary Competition in the Memoir category, according to the results posted on June 7, 2023. Congratulations to all the winners. I have already contacted Ford Canada...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 27, 2023 | Writing
Sad News This happy little evacuee, sitting on his ‘truck’, spent the war years in Canada with my great aunt and uncle. The loving relationship he developed lasted a lifetime. Although Aunt Dorothy died in 1949, John visited and kept in touch with...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Apr 1, 2023 | Writing
A wonderful surprise awaited me in the mailbox last week! A box of letters had arrived from England, sent by an 80+ year old man who had lived in Canada as a child. He and his sister had been evacuated to Windsor, Ontario for the duration of World War II where...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Mar 6, 2023 | Writing
During World War II, Ford Canada offered British Ford employees the opportunity to send their children to Canada for the duration of the hostilities. My great uncle, a Ford engineer in Windsor and his wife cared for siblings Jacquie and John Young for five years....
