Post-war life

Chub was liberated on May 3, 1945 and reunited with Becky soon after. He was shipped home in July, after receiving medical treatment in England. Becky followed in November, 1945, on a ship carrying war brides to their new home in Canada.

They spent their first winter in Manitoba, staying with Chub's sister Opal and her family outside of Winnipeg. Becky found the climate and landscape of the prairies too bleak compared to the green hills of Loch Lomond, so they next year they moved to Fort William (now Thunder Bay) where they finally were able to build their life together.Chub gained year-round employment at Chippewa Park, a large city park along the shore of Lake Superior. In the summers, he and Becky together ran the Tourist Camp, where they made many friends over the years.Their home for eight months of the year was a small log cabin with a wood stove and no running water ("running water" meant running and getting it). In the summers, they lived in a different little house at the tourist camp.While their marriage had a very fragile start, it proved to be a good one, and the years that followed the war were the happiest of their lives. Two boys were soon born: Iain in 1947, and Murray in 1950 and they enjoyed a happy family life, blessed with a large extended family in the city, and a wonderful environment at the park in which to live, work, and raise their kids.The shadow that constantly loomed over their lives, however, was Chub's health, which never regained its strength after the war. He spent a part of each year in the veterans' hospital in Winnipeg, usually to have kidney stones removed. A request to the National Archives in 2001 brought forth over 800 pages of medical records for his fourteen years after the war, including a total of 391 days spent in the hospital.

On November 3rd, 1959, Chub died suddenly from a heart attack while at work. He was buried on November 5, on what would have been his 51st birthday. Iain was 12, Murray had just turned 9.

 Becky remained a widow and continued to live at the park until her death in 1983.
For her story, go to http://www.pier21.ca/research/collections/the-story-collection/online-story-collection/war-brides and scroll down to "Scottish war brides Becky Angus"


Iain and Murray in Krakow, Poland, at the end of their own journey together.