Nel’s Perseverence Paid Off!, by Olga Rains
It Happened for a Reason, by Leona (Lorna) Tange
I Had a Happy Reunion with My Father in Canada, by Simonne Gallis
CHILDREN OF WAR BRIDES, by Melynda Jarratt
Desperate to Get Me Back, by Richard Bond
Who Was Clifford Harold Sims?, by Melynda Jarratt
Back Home to England, by Olga Rains
Husband in Jail, by Olga Rains
I Thought He Was Going to Kill Me, by Olga Rains
Really Desperate, by M.F.
WAR CHILDREN WHO WERE ADOPTED, by Melynda Jarratt
My Dad Was Killed in France, by Pamela Walker
A Wonderful Surprise, by Irene Lynk
Dear John, by Margaret Atkinson
Foundling, by Melynda Jarratt
Life Is So Different for Me Now, by Peter
Still Looking, by Olga Rains
You’re My Hero, by Melynda Jarratt
NATIVE ROOTS, by Melynda Jarratt
A Status Indian Living in Holland, by Olga Rains
The Impact Has Been Enormous, by Melynda Jarratt
He Was Ecstatic, by Joan Kramer-Potts
Mungwash: A Poem, by Josephine Gee
CHILDREN OF CANADIAN SERVICEWOMEN, by Melynda Jarratt
Thelma Left Her Baby in England, by Olga Rains
Double Standard, by Nano Pennefeather-McConnell
Child of War: A Poem, by Nano Pennefather-McConnell
THE CANADIANS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY, by Melynda Jarratt
I Was Born in Germany, by Susanne Werth
Like Winning a Lottery!, by Ron and Diane Matthews
Who Knows Jim Thomson?, by Heiko Windels
My Dad: A Poem, by Margaret
BY VIRTUE OF HIS SERVICE, by Melynda Jarratt
Letter from Louis Burwell, January 1, 1941
Letter from Guildford Rural District Council, Billeting Department, March 22, 1943
Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, London, England, to Miss Maria Franzen, Klies, Birkenfeld, Germany, November 8, 1946
Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, London, to Miss Maria Franzen, March 3, 1947
Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, London, to Miss Maria Franzen, May 21, 1947
Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, Regina, Saskatchewan, to MacIain MacGregor of Saskatchewan, October 16, 1947
Letter from Department of Veterans Affairs, Ottawa, to Mrs. Scholten of The Netherlands, September 26, 1956
Letter from lawyer JMR, Fredericton, New Brunswick, to Lloyd and Olga Rains, January 18, 1991
Letter from Lloyd and Olga Rains to lawyer JMR, January 28, 1991
Letter from Mr. Mackie, lawyer, Ottawa, to Linda Tucker, July 9, 1991
Letter from Olga Rains to lawyer Mark Sloan, Halifax, April 22, 1992
Letter from Personnel Records Unit, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, to Mr. Van Driest of The Netherlands, January 7, 1993
Letter from Research and Public Affairs Enquiries Officer, National Archives of Canada, to Donna Barkhouse of Winchester, Hants, England, November 20, 1994
Letter from Personnel Records Unit, National Archives of Canada, to Carol Packard of Winchester, Hants, England, December 20, 1994
Letter from Inquiries Officer, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, to Melynda Jarratt, May 7, 2001
Letter from Personnel Records Unit, National Archives of Canada, to Olga Rains, November 25, 2003
Letter from Syd Frost, Commanding Officer, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
Acknowledgements
Voices of the Left Behind is a unique mixture of personal narratives, oral histories, original photographs and documents that were gathered over the course of nearly twenty-five years by Olga and Lloyd Rains, founders of the Dutch-based Project Roots. Together with co-editor Melynda Jarratt in New Brunswick, Canada, the Rains worked via e-mail from their home in Haarlem, the Netherlands, for more than three years to bring these stories to life, choosing the stories, gathering the images and documents, getting permission from each participant, translating, editing, rewriting and sometimes rewriting a story again if necessary. This is truly a book that would not have been possible without the Internet.
Each chapter contains an introductory essay that provides a social, cultural and historical context for the war-child story, from the experiences of war children in Britain, Holland, Belgium or Germany to the unique circumstances facing war children who were adopted at birth, whose fathers were Native Canadians, whose mothers were war brides, or whose mothers were Canadian servicewomen stationed overseas during the war. Using original sources