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     My father received his discharge from the Canadian Army 
     
     in Halifax on June 14m, 1919. The largest group of soldiers 
     
     came across the Pacific on the Empress of Japan which docked 
     
     in Vancouver on May 215‘, 1919. Tompkins notes that the 
     
     members of the 260 Battalion received their warrants for travel 
     
     home right away so my father may have gone to Cardigan first 
     
     before going over to Halifax for his discharge. In Vancouver, 
     
     my mother was waiting for my father’s return and went to the 
     
     docks to see if she could see Dad before the troops were loaded 
     
     on the train for their trip east. The barricades prevented anyone 
     
     from going to the troop train but my mother somehow got 
     
     around those impediments and approached a young officer to 
     
     aid her in finding my father. This he did and she and Dad were 
     
     able to spend a few moments together before the train left the 
     
     docks. 
     
    
   
   
    
     My father returned to work in R.J.’s store and in 1920 
     
     journeyed to Winnipeg to meet my mother who came from 
     
     Vancouver. They attended an early morning Mass at St. Mary’s 
     
     Cathedral and went to the rectory to see what arrangements 
     
     could be made for their marriage. 
     
    

    
     They had some influence there because my father’s uncle was 
     
     married to the sister of Archbishop Sinnott who on hearing their 
     
     plans for marriage promptly instructed one of the priests to 
     
     marry them forthwith. A couple of people in the Church were 
     
     called upon to be witnesses and the marriage ceremony was 
     
     performed, with special suits and dresses left hanging in the 
     
     closets of their respective hotel rooms. 
     
    
   
   
    
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