As a child, I loved to pore through the colourful, patriotic and often amusing images pasted into my mother’s wartime scrapbook. Most of them were covers of the Star Weekly magazine, published by the Toronto Star. (Note: To see ALL my covers, scroll to the bottom of the page). The scrapbook created by my mother, […]
This sweet-faced woman later known as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, boosted morale so vigorously during the Second World War that Adolf Hitler himself called her “the most dangerous woman in Europe.” The young Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Queen Elizabeth, mother of the current queen, died in 2002 at the age of one hundred […]
As a child, I used to lie in bed at night and imagine the air force ghosts all around me. That’s because the farm in Saskatchewan where I grew up is a former airfield, one of hundreds created during the Second World War through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
