Review: 'To Wawa with Love' looks at return of soldiers from Second World War

May 22, 2012 | In "To Wawa with Love," Tom Douglas relives the rebuilding years immediately following the war, when returning soldiers and their families attempted a fresh start at building normal lives. ), by Tom Douglas: The stories of the soldiers returning from the Second World War become dimmer with each new generation. "To Wawa with Love" opens with his return home to Sault Ste. They offered him a job as a timekeeper at the Helen Mine iron ore property at Wawa, 250 kilometres north of the Sault on the Algoma Central Railway line. "To Wawa with Love" (James Lorimer and Company Ltd. His young sons saw him as a mysterious stranger and his employer, the Algoma Steel Corporation, had given his pre-war job in the executive offices to someone else. Mel Douglas, the author's father, was a sergeant in the 19th Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery. He spent four years overseas fighting the Nazis and was one of tens of thousands who landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944.... Read more »

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