Captured Hearts: New Brunswick’s War Brides (New Brunswick Military Heritage)

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Imagine you are a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you’ve gotten ever known in the back of — your circle of relatives, friends, and way of living — to begin a new life in Canada.

This is the story of hundreds of women who made their way to New Brunswick on the end of the Second World War. Between 1942 and 1948, young women from everywhere Europe came to this a part of Canada with their servicemen husbands. Some married Aboriginal New Brunswickers; others married French-speaking Acadians; still others married New Brunswickers of British descent. On this compelling volume, wives, widows, fiancées, and people who and returned to Europe after failed marriages tell compelling stories of prejudice, perseverance, kindness, hope, defeat and triumph.

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