My mum (who was in the WAAF) met my dad an RCAF pilot at an airbase in the north of England. Married in Stranraer, Scotland June 2, 1945. Two weeks later my dad was on his way back to Canada. My mum didn't joint him until April 1946 arriving in Halifax on the Aquitania along with the new Governor General Viscount Alexander.
It was a tough time in the UK compared to North America during and just after the war. Britain and spent a huge amount of money and had a lot of debt, whereas the USA had made a lot of money from manufacturing weapons for Europe. I'd imagine Canadians GI's would have been more "fresh faced" and Canada would have seemed perhaps more opportunistic than Britain at the time.
If I was young enough and wasn't leaving family, I'd be off like a shot. My Dad was offered a job in Vancouver when he was young but his Mum, my Nan, was so upset he didn't go.
My mum (who was in the WAAF) met my dad an RCAF pilot at an airbase in the north of England. Married in Stranraer, Scotland June 2, 1945. Two weeks later my dad was on his way back to Canada. My mum didn't joint him until April 1946 arriving in Halifax on the Aquitania along with the new Governor General Viscount Alexander.
My mother a British war bride married a Canadian solider was put through the hell/
OMG, who would leave the UK to go to Canada?
Millions have and still do.
It was a tough time in the UK compared to North America during and just after the war. Britain and spent a huge amount of money and had a lot of debt, whereas the USA had made a lot of money from manufacturing weapons for Europe. I'd imagine Canadians GI's would have been more "fresh faced" and Canada would have seemed perhaps more opportunistic than Britain at the time.
In the WW2 days you were starving in the UK and Canada was a land of olentey.
If I was young enough and wasn't leaving family, I'd be off like a shot. My Dad was offered a job in Vancouver when he was young but his Mum, my Nan, was so upset he didn't go.