Suitcase of wartime letters reveals Sask. families' plight

Photo by Frank Moore
Photo by Frank Moore

By Sharon Gerein, CBC News, April 27, 2016 

Canadian mothers connected through learning the fate of their sons

It was a small suitcase, about the size of a large laptop.

What was inside the suitcase was a glimpse into the wartime hope and anguish for seven Canadian families, including three from Saskatchewan, during the Second World War.

The correspondence nearly ended up on the auction block earlier this year, but it was saved by a man named Frank Moore. It eventually made its way to the hands of Canadian historian and author Ted Barris.

And now he’s talking about the letters he’s found inside that suitcase.

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The Canadian air crew members are buried in a cemetery in Ten Boer, Netherlands. (Photo by Frank Moore)

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