Mrs Mcewan At Po Box 104 Salmon Arm

Hi there,

I came across your post. Maw McEwan was my great-grandmother. I am currently making my way through a shoebox full of hundreds of letters sent to her from soldiers/a war widow or two from circa 1940-1947.

I'm still learning a lot about this myself, but everyone around town called her Maw, and I think a great deal of the folks she wrote to were people she knew prior to the war in the community in Salmon Arm, where she lived and was fairly involved (for example managing a local hockey team with a big M logo for Maw or Mcewan.), although so far I have discovered one ongoing series of letters from a war widow in Britain (and her very young son) who she'd never met that is quite affecting to follow along with. I'm curious to know more about the letters and their content if you still have them!

Welcome, Nanaimo. -- very glad you found this discussion thread. That's very cool that you have so much of her correspondence!

Nanaimo

Thank you for that information. It would be interesting to know if she did this on her own or as part of the group.

Re the contents that I have. I am sure the contents were with the covers I just have to find them. It may take a day or so.

I wonder why you have a lot but not all of these. It sounds like somone split you archive up at some time. I would have though a member of your family would have kept them together.

FYI. I suspect most of your letters from Canadians will have their service number on them in the format ? ###### where ? is a letter that with a few exceptions shows where the service man enlisted and the rest is a number. The letter for those who enlisted in British Columbia was "K". Letters J and R were used by the RCAF and W by the Womens services.

AQ