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One year into the war Pier Champiet had inslisted as the first soldier in his family.  Here he is with his wife Marie, his daughter Annette and his infant son Kylian. The family is taking their last picture before Andrew is sent off to Britain.

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Working as a butcher for majority of his life Pier was hesitant in joining the military world. The choice was tough. Leave his family and risk his life. Or stay and provide for his family. His indecisevnes soonly vanished after reading a couple propaganda posters on his way to the shop one day.

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Before Piers inlisment, the Champiets had heard word of the incident of the Komagata Maru. On September 26, 1914, the Komagata Maru departed for India once more. The passengers were thought to be revolutionaries travelling to cause disturbance, according to British investigators. After a confrontation between the police and the passengers, gunshots broke out. When it concluded, 22 people including 16 passengers had died.

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By Matthew McRae

When Nimrat Randhawa and her family immigrated to Canada in the summer of 2003, they arrived completely in the dark - literally.

As Randhawa's plane was landing at Pearson International Airport, the Northeast blackout of 2003 struck, affecting nearly 10 million people in Ontario and another 45 million in eight American states. Randhawa was only five years old, but she remembers that night well.

"Our plane was actually the last plane that landed there - all the planes after were redirected," she explained. "I just remember that we got off and all the lights were off, and I just felt really weird because that was one of the things our parents would tell us: In India the light goes out a lot, the electricity goes out a lot, but we won't have to experience that in Canada. So, for that to be the first experience was totally weird."

It was a strange introduction to Canada, but Randhawa soon got used to her new country and her family flourished. It wasn't until much later in her life that she learned about an ancestor who had experienced an even darker reception when he arrived in Canada.

That ancestor was Randhawa's great‐great grandfather, Gurdit Singh, and his story is the story of the Komagata Maru. In 1913, Singh was an entrepreneur originally from Punjab, in India, working in Singapore. Whenever he went back to his village, he saw poverty and people struggling to get by and felt like he should do something to help.

When Singh was approached by Sikhs seeking to immigrate to Canada, he agreed to help. He chartered the Japanese ship Komagata Maru to transport these prospective immigrants across the Pacific Ocean. The ship set off from Hong Kong on April 4, 1914, carrying 376 Indian passengers - 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims and 12 Hindus. Over a month later, on May 22, the Komagata Maru arrived on the coast of British Columbia. The ship and its passengers did not receive a warm welcome.

In 1914, many white Canadians were very hostile to non‐white immigration. In 1907, 10,000 people in Vancouver protested Indian immigration and then rioted through Vancouver's Chinatown, scaring residents and destroying property. In 1908, the federal government made two provisions meant to prevent Indian immigration. The first required that all immigrants arrive in Canada by a continuous journey from their country of citizenship. Since there were no ships that made a continuous journey from India to Canada, this restriction effectively blocked Indian immigration. The second provision required Indian Immigrants to possess $200 upon arriving in Canada - eight times the amount required of white immigrants. In 1913, a lawyer in British Columbia successfully argued in court against these provisions, which led the passengers on the Komagata Maru to believe they would be able to immigrate to Canada.

The Canadian government had other plans. When the ship arrived, the strategy of local immigration officials was to deny Singh permission to land, thereby denying him access to banks and his money. They hoped to starve Singh of funds until he was forced to leave. The passengers, however, chose to present their case in court, and with the help of Vancouver's Sikh community, they hired J. Edward Bird, the same lawyer who had successfully argued the case against the government provisions.

Canadian immigration officials did everything they could to stop Bird. They prevented him from having private meetings with the ship's passengers. They also forced him to make his case to a panel of five judges instead of just one. At the same time, officials made life for the passengers very difficult, rationing supplies so that sometimes those onboard were forced to go 48 hours without food or water. On July 6, the judges decided against Bird, which meant the passengers on the Komagata Maru would not be admitted to Canada. On July 23, two months after it arrived, the ship was escorted out of Canadian waters by the HMCS Rainbow.

The Komagata Maru returned to India on September 26, 1914. British authorities suspected that the passengers were revolutionaries arriving to make trouble. There was an altercation between authorities and passengers, and shooting started. When it ended, 22 people were dead, including 16 passengers. More than 200 of the surviving passengers were imprisoned. Gurdit Singh was blamed for the massacre and went into hiding, but eventually decided to surrender. When Singh was released from prison, he began working peacefully for Indian independence alongside Mohandas Gandhi.

Singh's great‐great granddaughter didn't know anything about this story until she and her family took a trip to Vancouver when she was in middle school. "Before that, I didn't really have an idea that there was any kind of wrongdoing in Canada's past.... After learning about this, I realized there are actually a lot of things that have happened and there isn't a lot of awareness about them. I feel like it's always important to look back on our past and our past mistakes so we don't repeat them now."

Canada has just started to atone for this dark part of its history. In May 2008, the British Columbia Legislature passed a motion apologizing to the passengers onboard the Komagata Maru. Two months later, then‐Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to a Sikh gathering in Surrey, British Columbia. Many Sikhs at the gathering wanted a more formal apology in the House of Commons and, on May 18, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized in Parliament for the Komagata Maru incident.

Pardeep Singh Nagra, the Executive Director of the Sikh Heritage Museum of Canada, says it's important for Canadians to know about and acknowledge what happened in 1914 - but also to acknowledge how much Canadian society has changed:

"Who would have thought, on the 100th anniversary of the Komagata Maru incident in 2014, that there would be a young Sikh gentleman... who then was the Minister of Multiculturalism for Canada? And who would think that 102 years later, when the apology finally came in Parliament, that Canada would have four Sikh Ministers, including the Minister of Defence who at one time was the first Sikh person to lead a regiment in Canada? And that it would be the same regiment that turned the passengers of the Komagata Maru away? This is Canada, this is the legacy of the Komagata Maru and this is the narrative and voice that all Canadians need to hear."

The story of the Komagata Maru can be found in the Museum's Canadian Journeys gallery. This article was written in part using research conducted by Mallory Richard, who worked at the Museum as both a researcher and a project coordinator.

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By Matthew McRae When Nimrat Randhawa and her family immigrated to Canada in the summer of 2003, they arrived completely in the dark - literally. As Randhawa's plane was landing at Pearson International Airport, the Northeast blackout of 2003 struck, affecting nearly 10 million people in Ontario and another 45 million in eight American states.

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12/21/1918

Dear father,
I hope you are doing well in Europe. All of us miss you so greatly. Yesterday was Kylians 6th birthday. He was balling his eyes out this year for you. The boy misses you a lot dad. We need you dad. ever since the war started and you left things kept getting worse. We are just about managing keeping the house warm in winters like these. We don't have as much nice meat from before. Its all from the new butcher. Its unbearbly flavourless compared to your's. I heard great news last year about your victory in Vimy Ridge. Reading the news paper makes you all seem like heros risking your lives in that manner. I have managed to keep Mom and Kylian from stressing by listening to the radio together every night. I am so greatful we have on it really gives us peace.

We love you dad, come home soon.

Love, your daugther Annette.

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After the war the family was reunited. Pier returned from deployment and can enjoy the treasures of post-war life. Here the family is enjoying some time together using the new radio they purchesed. They are listening to commantary of an Edmonton Grads game.

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Liquor barrels emptied into the lake at Elk Lake, Ontario, during Prohibition.

The Temperance Campaign

Prohibition was the result of generations of effort by temperance workers to close bars and taverns. They were seen as the source of much misery in an age before social welfare existed. Temperance activists and their allies believed that alcohol, especially hard liquor, was an obstacle to economic success; to social cohesion; and to moral and religious purity.

The main temperance organizations were the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The newsletter of the latter was the Canadian White Ribbon Tidings. The Temperance struggle was connected to other reform efforts of the time, such as the women's suffrage movement. It was also motivated in part by Social Gospel beliefs.

Hillhurst Presbyterian Sunday school group, Calgary, c 1912-16.

19th Century Prohibition

Various pre- Confederation laws against the sale of alcohol had been passed, including the Dunkin Act in the Province of Canada in 1864. It allowed any county or municipality to prohibit the retail sale of liquor by majority vote. In 1878, this "local option" was extended to the whole Dominion under the Canada Temperance Act, or Scott Act.

By 1898, the temperance forces were strong enough to force a national plebiscite on the issue. But the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier decided that the majority of 13,687 votes cast in favour of prohibition was not large enough to warrant passing a law; especially since Quebec had voted overwhelmingly against it. Much of the country was already "dry" under local option. Full provincial bans would eventually emerge.

Wartime Sacrifice

Prohibition was first enacted on a provincial basis in Prince Edward Island in 1901. It became law in the remaining provinces - as well as in Yukon and in Newfoundland (which did not join Confederation until 1949) - during the First World War. Prohibition was widely seen at the time as a patriotic duty and a social sacrifice, to help win the war. ( See also Wartime Home Front.)

Unlike in the United States, banning booze in Canada was complicated by the shared jurisdiction over alcohol-related laws between Ottawa and the provinces. The provinces controlled sales and consumption. The federal government oversaw the making and trading of alcohol. ( See Distribution of Powers.) In March 1918, Ottawa stopped, for the remainder of the First World War, the manufacture and importation of liquor into provinces where purchase was already illegal.

Blind Pigs and Rum Running

Provincial temperance laws varied. In general, they closed legal drinking establishments and forbade the sale of alcohol as well as its possession and consumption; except in a private dwelling. In some provinces, domestic wines were exempt. Alcohol could be purchased through government dispensaries for industrial, scientific, mechanical, artistic, sacramental and medicinal uses. Distillers and brewers and others properly licensed could sell outside the province.

Although enforcement was difficult, drunkenness and associated crimes declined significantly. However, illicit stills and home-brewed "moonshine" proliferated. Much inferior booze hit the streets. But good liquor was readily available, since its manufacture was permitted after the war. Bootlegging (the illegal sale of alcohol as a beverage) rose dramatically; as did the number of unlawful drinking places known as "speakeasies" or "blind pigs." One way to drink legally was to be "ill," since doctors could give prescriptions to be filled at drugstores. Abuse of this system resulted, with veritable epidemics and long queues occurring during the Christmas holiday season.

A dramatic aspect of the prohibition era was rum running. By constitutional amendment, the United States was under even stricter prohibition from 1920 to 1933 than was Canada. The manufacture, sale, and transportation of all beer, wines, and spirits were forbidden there. Liquor could, however, be legally produced in Canada (but not sold there) and legally exported out of Canadian ports. This created the odd situation of allowing smugglers to leave Canada with shiploads of alcohol destined for their "dry" neighbour, under the protection of Canadian law. Smuggling, often accompanied by violence, erupted in border areas and along the coasts. Political cartoons in newspapers showed leaky maps of Canada with Uncle Sam attempting to stem the tide of alcohol.

Repeal of Prohibition Laws

Prohibition was too short-lived in Canada to engender any real success. Opponents maintained that it violated British traditions of individual liberty; and that settling the matter by referendum or plebiscite was a departure from Canadian parliamentary practice. Quebec rejected it as early as 1919 and became known as the "sinkhole" of North America. Tourists flocked to "historic old Quebec" and the provincial government reaped huge profits from the sale of booze.

In 1920, British Columbia voted to go "wet." By the following year, some alcoholic beverages were legally sold there and in Yukon through government stores. Manitoba inaugurated a system of government sale and control of alcohol in 1923, followed by Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1924; Newfoundland in 1925; Ontario and New Brunswick in 1927; and Nova Scotia in 1930. The last bastion, Prince Edward Island, finally gave up "the noble experiment" in 1948. Pockets of dryness under local option continued for years throughout the country.

See also Temperance Movement in Canada; Distilling Industry; Seagram; Brewing Industry in Canada; Wine Industry; Craft Brewing in Canada; Cannabis Legalization in Canada.

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05/09/1920

To be back from war is a feeling of which has no words. From constant stress and bombardment to relaxing days with family. It is sad however that many things are inaccesable now. Alcohal is prohibited and the only way to recieve it is through shady smuggles. I do somewhat miss the war scene. Waking up next to brothers and challanging the enemy. The first battle of Somme was not one to forget. Everything began on July 1st, 1916. An a llied assault during World War I. North of the Somme River in France, British and French forces conducted a frontal assault against an entrenched German army. Following a week-long artillery barrage, the still impenetrable German defences came under British infantry attack. On the first day, there were about 60,000 British casualties, including 20,000 fatalities. The battle became a symbol for futility and slaughter. Those times are well past me now. I thank god for the position I am in today.

(*) Pier Champiet

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Roughly 1,500 people living in federal unemployment relief camps in British Columbia began a strike in April 1935. To protest the deplorable circumstances in the camps built during the Great Depression, they took trains and trucks to Vancouver. They chose to take their struggle to Ottawa after their protest of several months turned out to be ineffective. More than a thousand strikers started riding railcars across the nation on June 3. They numbered 2,000 people when they arrived in Regina. However, they were halted in Regina, and the strike leaders were taken into custody, which led to the bloody Regina Riot on July 1, 1935.

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A short while after the war ended, every Indigenous child was required to attend a residential school, and attending any other type of educational facility became against the law. This was a term under the Indian Act

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11/03/1942

Dear mother,
It has been 8 months since I have been employed in the war. Each day I have missed you so greatly. The war has kept the European world on it's toes ever since it has started. Ever since the Nazis took over the French region we have been contemplating on what we should do next ever since.
A day to remember was August 19, 1942. On a front that was about 16 kilometres long, five different places were attacked by the enemy forces. Just before dawn, there were to be four simultaneous flank attacks, and then, a half-hour later, the main assault on the Dieppe town itself. This was yet again a lost battle. I will be back home as soon as I get the word I can. Stay safe mother. I love you

Sincerly, your son at war.

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One story the Champiet family heard was the story of Viola Desmond. When Viola Desmond, a businesswoman from Halifax, refused to get up from her seat in the Roseland Theatre's "whites-only" section in 1946, she challenged the racism that African Nova Scotians frequently faced. She was detained for this, imprisoned for the night, and fined.

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On 1 September 1939, German forces invaded Poland, and the Second World War began. Donald Macdonald, then a boy in Winnipeg and later a federal Cabinet minister, remembered huddling around the radio in his grandparents' living room, listening to the CBC reports of the Nazi invasion. "Even as a seven-year-old I understood that the world had just changed for the worse."

The six-year-long war brought changes to the world order and forever altered Canada. The nation of then only 11 million people committed more than one million men and women to uniform. Among those most affected were young Canadians, whose voices were often lost in the cacophony of war. Children leave few written records, and their contributions are sometimes ignored by historians. But the war had a profound impact on their lives and families.

New Responsibilities

The adults started to disappear from children's lives soon after the war started. Older brothers, uncles and fathers enlisted in the military and were posted across the country or sent overseas. Male teachers slowly abandoned the classroom for service in the armed forces. They went from men in civilian dress to uniformed heroes - and sometimes martyrs. Occasionally, the wounded returned limping, cradling an arm, or missing limbs. Visible scars and invisible wounds to the mind left these veterans forever changed. Children and adolescents feared for their own loved ones.

While fathers and siblings were away on duty, children were expected to help around the house. New chores fell to children, everything from cooking to cleaning. Some mothers entered the paid workforce in white-or blue-collar jobs, and older children had to look after younger siblings. Newspapers carried ads seeking help for "general housework" or to "assist with children." Girls, sometimes as young as 10 or 12, were soon employed in these positions. They were expected to do this as they balanced homework and other duties.

Schools were plastered with posters encouraging students to do their bit, to avoid careless talk that might aid the enemy, and to be on the lookout for spies. Teachers taught lessons about the war overseas and Canada's contributions to beating the enemy. Occasionally, a student disappeared from school for a few days, and the teachers explained that the boy or girl needed a rest because they had lost a loved one in the war.All the while, morale was to be kept up. "There'll Always Be an England" or "God Save the King" were sung with relish. No one wanted to be found wanting in their patriotism.

Helping the War Effort

Victory Gardens were encouraged. At school and at home, wherever there was a free patch of earth, children planted seeds and tended to their vegetables. Every bunch of carrots or canning of jam was portrayed as a blow in battling the Nazis. Children in rural areas sniffed at the city gardens as they engaged in back-breaking labour on farms.

Recycling was also depicted as essential to the war effort. Paper and metal scraps were gathered in large salvage drives. Renderings of fats were collected from kitchens. Some children cried as the First World War artillery pieces from the battlefields of the Somme or Passchendaele, that had been situated in front of libraries or near city hall and climbed over in make-believe games, were now melted down to form new armaments. Canadians were instructed to recycle and reuse. Nothing was to be wasted in the fight.

Babysitting money and allowances went towards purchasing war stamps. The stamps were sold at school and in stores, and children purchased each for 25 cents. Sixteen filled up a $4 card, which was then sent to the federal government. In return, the child received a War Savings Certificate worth $5, to be cashed in after the war. The money raised was substantial; in the city of Edmonton in the single year of 1945, $41,926 was put towards War Savings Certificates.

The Girl Guides and Boy Scouts continued their good work, helping out those soldiers' families that required aid and, in the case of the girls, knitting socks and scarves for military members overseas.Pen pals - soldiers, sailors, airmen and other children - were written to in Britain.

Closer to home, Canadian children went to school with more than 7,000 British children who had been evacuated from Britain to Canada, most of them in 1940, amid fears of a German invasion. These "guest children" stayed with Canadian families. Some made lifelong friendships with their Canadian foster parents and siblings; others were exploited and put to work for a pittance under harsh conditions and in unloving environments. Most of the children returned to their British families before the end of the war.

Germans, Italians and Japanese

Not all Canadian children were allowed to participate in the war effort. Canadians of German or Italian descent were teased, taunted or assaulted. The victims sometimes fought back, insisting they were as Canadian as anyone else, but most slunk away to the shadows, not anxious to draw attention to their heritage. Gloria Harris recounted that, "We were never, ever allowed to forget that we were foreign. I was born in this country, but I was 'foreign.'"

Canadians of Japanese descent were actively harassed after Canada went to war with Japan in December 1941. Children were among the 23,000 Japanese Canadians who were viewed as threats to Canada's security and moved by the government from their homes on the British Columbia coast to communities and camps in the interior.Japanese Canadian writer Joy Kogawa kept the memory of the internment alive with her novel (1981).

Culture and Games

The war intruded into the lives of young Canadians. Blackout drills to prepare for enemy bomber attacks (which never came) left young minds wondering if Germany or Japan would soon launch an invasion. Sports teams adopted military names, such as Corvettes or Spitfires. Books for young adults were soon filled with stories of brave Canadians fighting the Germans. Children learned the names of famous battle sites such as Dieppe and Ortona, of the warships struggling to protect merchant vessels in the Battle of the Atlantic, and of Lancaster aircraft bombing German cities.

There was a surge during the war years of Canadian-content comics, known as "whites" because of the coloured covers and the black and white interiors. Canadian heroes Johnny Canuck, Nelvana of the Northern Lights, and Canada Jack battled Nazis and other villains.

There were wartime games too. A variation of the old favourite Snakes and Ladders was reissued as Bomb Berlin. New games included the bingo-like Bomb the Axis, as well as the bilingual War Game/ Jeu de Guerre. Toy guns, helmets, and uniforms could be donned to defeat the enemy in make-believe battles.

One Canadian remembered of his youth, "When my uncle came home on leave once, I paraded around in his tunic, proudly pointing out the GS on his sleeve; there were no Zombies in our family!" The "Zombies" were those men who refused to serve overseas but were conscripted for home defence after the National Resources Mobilization Act of June 1940. The GS on the sleeve denoted General Service, while the Zombies, who refused to enlist for overseas service, were sneered at and said to have no soul. Of the many games played and the pride displayed, Québec author Roch Carrier recounted later in life, "Then we would die, moaning. And when we'd finished dying, we would start another war."

Young Canadians went to the movies to see their cartoons and comedies, but many also watched war films like Mrs. Miniver- the story of the evacuation of British soldiers from Dunkirk, or wartime thrillers like Casablanca. Radio programs like L is for Lankey followed the stories of Bomber Command aircrews taking the fight to the Germans.

Shortages and Rationing

From the midpoint of the war, Canadian families dealt with shortages of sugar, meat, butter and gasoline. Rationing coupons were issued to provide a fair share to all. The conditions in Canada were far better than in war-torn Europe, but children lamented the lack of chocolate bars or Sunday drives to the country.

In the larger cities, especially Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, and Halifax, there were housing shortages. Working-class families had to double up in homes or live in garages, basements or attics. Three kids to a bed was not uncommon. Other families took in female civilian workers or military personnel. These strangers in the home usually fit in nicely, although it could be odd for children to lose a brother to the services and gain an outsider in return.

In more rural communities, children witnessed the creation of new runways and flight schools for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which brought airmen from across the country and throughout the Commonwealth or the United States into their towns. The exotic New Zealanders, South Africans, and Australians walked city or village streets. The world was coming to Canadian communities across a nation festooned with 107 air training schools and 184 ancillary units at 231 sites.

Adolescents

While younger children were preoccupied with many projects, there was a fear that teenagers might be corrupted by the lack of supervision during the war. Drinking, dancing and cavorting with the opposite sex were moral corruptions for delinquent teenagers. Stories of youth gangs roaming the streets at night stealing tires and other rationed goods were more products of worry than reality, although some high-profile cases seemed to confirm fears that teenagers were on the brink of a downward spiral. Sensational films, like Where Are Your Children? featured parents who lost control of their wayward teenagers to the sins of pool halls, joy rides, and all manner of worrisome activities.

The non-conformity among teenagers was illustrated by the zoot suit craze. Following a trend in the United States, young people slipped into zoot suits - oversized pants cinched at the waist and worn high to create a balloon effect, topped off with a long coat with padded shoulders, a flamboyant bowtie, and a wide-brimmed hat. In several of the large cities, and especially Montréal, there were clashes between military members and zoot suiters. Pushing back against the authorities and the war effort, the anti-war and anti- conscriptionist zoot suiters were often attacked by Anglo gangs and service personnel, with large-scale clashes occurring in May and June 1944.

Losing Loved Ones

Children and teenagers treasured the black and white photographs of fathers or older siblings who were away fighting the war. Cameras were rare, and there might have been only a handful of images in the house. Meanwhile, the war overseas was always present. Children anxiously searched newsreels, which played before movies, for a glimpse of a familiar face. They fingered the souvenirs in their pockets that had been sent home from overseas by their brothers and dads and were invested with deep meaning. Letters were read over and over again, and young Canadians wrote to their loved ones about their activities at school or sports, the books they read, and how they hoped for a reunion.

Billie Housego, whose father was overseas for several years, yearned for when the war might end and when "my dad would be home to stay, there to sit down at the table with us morning and night, day in and day out." These were the hopes of millions, although there was always much dread each time the telegraph boy rode down the street. Women, grandparents and children prayed he would not stop at their house or apartment with a message from the government, "We regret to inform you . . ."

The war in Europe ended on 8 May 1945, and children were among the millions of Canadians who were swept up in the excitement. Most young people took pride in having done their bit, with their service marked by knitting socks, helping in the home or on the farm, having dirty fingernails from gardening, and collecting mountains of scrap metal for recycling.

The celebrations, songs and outpourings of joy were mixed with the knowledge that some neighbours' uncles, brothers and fathers were never returning home. Sometimes the loss struck even closer to home. That grief would stay with young Canadians all their lives, while others never forgot the relief in seeing a dad or brother walk through the family's front door.

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On 1 September 1939, German forces invaded Poland, and the Second World War began. Donald Macdonald, then a boy in Winnipeg and later a federal Cabinet minister, remembered huddling around the radio in his grandparents' living room, listening to the CBC reports of the Nazi invasion.

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During this time housing was a real struggle for the Champiet family. With Pier and Kylian off at war, the two women are now left to feed for themselves. Rations are just not enough and the family is in need more than ever. The two have just managed to keep their home through funds from Pier over in Europe.

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Finally the war is over. Marie and Annette can finally see their men again. Pier and Kylian have served well and had recived many accolades throughout their service. They can now reunite with their family and enjoy themselves back home in peace.