Sailing Ships and Spitfires :: Selected Readings

Table of Contents

Note: All titles are quotations are taken from writings by family members.
**Selected Readings are available in pdf format

PROLOGUE: In Normandy with the RCAF- June 1944 (pdf)

PART ONE: "Dear Old Norway" (Norway-19th Century until 1903)
Chapter 1 "I will find my way home, as long as I am alive"
Chapter 2 "The Dear Fatherland"

PART TWO: "America is Not What it used to be" (United States-1904-1911)
Chapter 3 "There are thousands out of work" (pdf)
Chapter 4 "If you gain something, you lose something else"
Chapter 5 "Right now it is hard times all over"
Chapter 6 "We can't make up our minds what to do"
Chapter 7 "Sometimes things do not go the way we want"

PART THREE: "Canada Should be Perfect for Oats and Wheat" (Canada-1912-27)
Chapter 8 "There is not a stump on this land, or stones to break" (pdf)
Chapter 9 "If nothing unforeseen happens"
Chapter 10 "It is a disturbing world we are living in"
Chapter 12 "Full of hope and ambition"
Chapter 13 "We closed the doors and left"

PART FOUR: "We Thought it Couldn't Get Worse" (Canada-1927-1939)
Chapter 13 "It once was so cheerful, that place we called home"
Chapter 14 "Often the heartache is hid by a smile"

PART FIVE: "I Hope the Lord will Protect Them" (Second World War-1940-45)
Chapter 15 "It makes you just itch to get over there"
Chapter 16 "Nothing but rain, rain, rain" (pdf)
Chapter 17 "It was a terrible place to live"
Chapter 18 "We like our Spits very much"
Chapter 19 "I have never been so keen about flying"

EPILOGUE