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Field name | Value |
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Title | Oral History with Gwendoline Goodey |
Date | 18 Jul 2006 |
Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
Name | Goodey, Gwendoline |
Interviewer | Beeston, Emily |
Date of Recording | 18 Jul 2006 |
Duration | 00:08:35 |
Reference | 06.07.18GG |
Library / Archive | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |
Description | Gwendoline Goodey arrived from England as a war bride in 1944. She describes her relief on leaving England during wartime, conditions crossing the Atlantic to join her husband and her experiences with the trains on arriving in Canada. |
Theme(s) | Journey Conditions; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences |
Country (from) | Great Britain |
Country (to) | Canada |
Places | Edmonton, Alberta, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Dunkirk, France |
Ports | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Nationality | English |
Keywords | war bride, Second World War, army, evacuee, children, water, food, child migration, medical staff, health and sickness, injury, soldier, seasickness, railway, Red Cross, sanitation, shipping |
Language | English |
Copyright | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |