by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 2, 2015 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Roger Sweeny For this retelling I invite you to be my shadow as we climb to the open, moonlit bridge of the Light Cruiser HMCS ONTARIO to begin the Middle Watch (midnight to 0400) on this Battle of Atlantic Sunday, 20th May 1951. Also, since the story involves...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 2, 2015 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Cynthia Ho Lam I was 3-years-old when I left Shanghai, my mother’s hometown in Mainland China, with my extended family, in the great exodus to flee the Communists, and to retreat to the island of Taiwan, in 1949. Having been colonized for 50 years by Japan, Taiwan...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 2, 2015 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Ellen Leslie I grew up in Westridge, a post-World War II development at the eastern margin of Burnaby, below what is now Simon Fraser University. They skinned the ground to make way for family housing. It was, in those days, a neighbourhood of stay-at-home Mums and...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 1, 2015 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Karl Perrin When I was 14, I had the spiritual experience of my life. In those years, the late Fifties, the world was waking from the long sleep that came inevitably after the long exhaustion of World War II. The Cold War had settled in, but the rabid...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 1, 2015 | Intergenerational Story Project
by Peggy Olive My world included two beautiful trees in our Montreal backyard as I grew up in the 1950s. A stately American elm, shared with our neighbour and several gray squirrels, was so tall that the lowest branches began well above my father’s head. The rough,...
