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Aleyda Campbell
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1945-2006 (Creation)
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0.5 cm of textual records
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The series consists of 5 pages of autobiographical notes, and a copy of a letter from the Captain, Senior Medical Officer of the Ship, the "Aquitania" and a copy of a newspaper item from the 1990s concerning the federal government's honoring of the war brides. A biography based on the interview is included.
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Aleyda Leenders was born in the Hague, Netherlands and was a teenager when war broke out. Her father was called up to the Dutch Army and in 1940 the Leeders family was ordered out of their house and her father was taken prisoner. The children with their mother lived in Belgium for 6 weeks and after they were allowed back into Holland, Piep completed high school and spent the rest of the war years working as a telephone operator. She met her husband, Colin, when her brother brought him home as one of the Canadian soldiers who had no place to live. They were married in November, 1945. Colin was shipped back home in January, 1946, and Piep and their son, Kenneth, followed in January, 1947.
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- English