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“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia
They are all in their graves now, but late in the winter of 1979, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I recorded conversations with six women who, in 1938, shortly before Canada’s entry into WWII, arrived on three different steamers from Europe, ostensibly to be war …