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More
than one million Canadians served full-time
in the armed forces during the Second
World War, approximately 731,000 in the
army, 106,000 in the navy, and 250,000
in the air force. These figures include
nearly 50,000 women. Those overseas were
anxious to return to loved ones and get
on with their lives. While repatriation
was sometimes frustratingly slow, especially
for men who had been overseas 5 years
or longer, most were back in Canada by
early 1946. They brought with them some
48,000 ‘war brides’, mainly
British, and more than 22,000 children.
Another
17,000 Canadian troops served in the
Allied occupation force in Germany. They
returned to Canada by mid-1946.
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