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From Sailing Ships to Spitfires: The Life and Times of an Immigrant Family, Whose Sons Fought in the Second World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
From Sailing Ships to Spitfires: The Life and Times of an Immigrant Family, Whose Sons Fought in the Second World War Whose Sons Fought in the Second World War by Shirley Walker. Ottawa Borealis Press. 382 pp., illus., paper, $19.95.
This, indeed, is a family history, as clearly indicated in the title. It begins with grandfather Gustav Rosseland working on a Norwegian ship at the turn of the 20th century. It follows Gustav and Anna to the United States in 1907, and then to the Castor district of Alberta seven years later. With their roots firmly implanted in Canada, Gustav and his brothers Olav and Albert, set out to make a good life for themselves.
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