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Mystery Woman
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 a...
Honourable Mention
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...
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 Uncle Dave...
A Treasure Trove
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...
Ford Canada’s Humanitarian War Efforts
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. "You...
Love and Avarice
Roger and Claire Cohen face danger and peril amidst the sudden appearance of an ominous illness that ravages their community. (Sound familiar?) They struggle to maintain a crumbling marriage while trying to decipher the riddle of this threat and solve the...
What a surprise!
I just received a response to a message I sent eight years ago! In my novel The Medal, I created the character of Sam who is a composite of three Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan. Before the book was published, I wrote to each of their parents to...
Metro’s Goldwyn Mayor
Allan Lamport, mayor of Toronto from 1951-1954 was dubbed ‘Metro’s Goldwyn Mayor’. Like Sam Goldwyn, he had a knack for saying things in innovative and memorable ways. Here are some examples: I get up at five in the morning no matter what time of day it is. You’ve...