After sinking U boats they have found that some of the German corpses had ticket stubs for NHL games in Montreal, and ticket stubs from dances in Halifax. In 1943 my mother and I (I was too young to remember but this is what she said happened) went to visit my Dad who was in the RCAF stationed at Yarmouth, NS. While crossing the Bay of Fundy from St John, NB to Digby, NS a German U boat surfaced alongside, looked the ferry over and submerged again. She said women were screaming and crying thinking they were going to be torpedoed. My Dad said that at one point they actually boarded the ferry, looked it over and determined that it wasn't a threat and left it alone.
Quebec City had wooden cannons facing the St Lawrence River hoping to deter German ships from coming up the river. An Air Force friend of mine who was older than me said when they lived in Halifax during the war, they were under blackout conditions.
Yes the enemy were here.
|