00:03Be grateful for what you have. Hopefully we're going to live in peace. Peace is nice.
00:12You've got planes flying over, dropping bums and stuff on you. That ain't the best time of the day.
00:24My name is Andrew Rogers. I'm a singer-songwriter from Hance Harbor, Newfoundland and Labrador.
00:30I love to perform and write music. That's what I do.
00:34As a songwriter, I'm constantly in search of great stories.
00:38And perhaps one of the greatest stories I've ever come across has been right in front of me this whole
00:42time.
00:43About a year ago, I traveled to Fairhaven to talk with my great-grandmother.
00:48She is a war bride who grew up in the London area of Great Britain during World War II.
00:53She would eventually meet my great-grandfather, Samuel Masters, during his service in the war.
00:58And together, they moved back to Samuel's hometown of Fairhaven, Newfoundland and Labrador when the war ended.
01:05Initially, I just wanted to capture the story for the family primarily.
01:08But, you know, sitting down with her, I kind of got the gears turned to attempt to write a song
01:13about her story.
01:15I set off to speak with war historians, families of other war brides, and members of my own family to
01:23find out more about my great-grandparents' story and the struggles they faced both during and after the war.
01:53After surviving the war, I found out my great-grandmother faced a whole new set of challenges.
01:56She arrived in Newfoundland and Labrador as an outsider, raising a young family in a whole new world.
02:03She came from England. Dad's parents couldn't accept her. They couldn't accept that.
02:09She was special, but she wasn't treated special.
02:13The transition from living in England to living in Newfoundland was quite dramatic.
02:19Oh, my. What am I going to do?
02:23She was mortified, actually. A lot of people just got off the boat and turned around and went back again.
02:27Right.
02:30Totally different. Totally, totally different.
02:34I was a stranger.
02:37But I worked at it. Yeah, I worked at it, my dear.
02:43Every song has a story, and this song's story is 99 years in the making.
02:49A story of courage and resilience.
02:52Miss Floyd is dead, for sure. Wow.
02:58Spanning decades and continents.
03:01I didn't come and expect to have it easy.
03:07I worked hard and done the best I could.
03:10A love forged in one of the most volatile moments in recent history.
03:16You've seen these in movies, right?
03:21And sometimes, in order to get the whole story, you need to go back to where it all started.
03:33When we say we will remember them, what are we really remembering?
03:40You've got to know about your room story. You need to know that. Once I'm gone, it's gone.
03:49You know, that's a lot to overcome, but she did it. So, you know, so if she can do that,
03:58I can pretty much do anything.
04:02Follow me on this journey of discovery, as I learn more about an ordinary woman who lived in extraordinary times.
04:10She was a good man.
04:14She was a good man.
04:15And she still is.
04:17She was a good woman.
04:18And she left of that care and found her out of aresi Nettro.
04:24Hey, she was put on this hincap with her.
04:29I had the brownism.
