• Peggy, Dorothy, Dick, Don
    … as the next street. Late the following day, along with 351 other CORB evacuees, we embarked in the Orient Line's SS "Oronsay". At about the … festive atmosphere. We entrained later the same day with 30 other evacuees designated for Sackville, New Brunswick with a smaller group …
  • John Hughes
    … children had been provisionally accepted. About half of the C.O.R.B. evacuees went abroad without any sort of consultation by their parents. … in Nova Scotia, would travel throughout the province to check on the evacuees and their hosts to see that everything was all right. In 1941 Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare met with a group of evacuees in the valley area at the United Church in Middleton. British …
  • Catherine MacKinnon Read
    … were leaving for Canada within forty-eight hours, with other Scottish evacuees. There was no time to analyze the situation, or consider the … the crew on the Bayano appeared to be not much older than some of the evacuees. Those boys, as well as our escorts, went out of their way to …
  • The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War
    … adults. [9] Some estimates place the total number of wartime civilian evacuees to Canada at over ten thousand. Leland and Audrey Smith Pratt, … , 45:2 (Spring 1983), 175 Department of Citizenship and Immigration, “Evacuees to Canada, 1940-1941”, Library and Archives Canada RG 26 Vol …
  • Historic Pier 21
    … 128. Geoffrey Bilson, The Guest Children: The Story of British Child Evacuees Sent to Canada During World War II (Saskatoon: Fifth House, …