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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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