

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dr. Barbara Lorenzkowski Talk - Bitter Tales:  Remembering Wartime Childhoods in Halifax, NS
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Bitter Tales:  Remembering Wartime Childhoods in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1939-1945
 
This presentation turns to three accounts of childhood in 1940s Atlantic Canada that foreground not the public story of the war, but intensely private moments of emotional and material neglect, alienation, and abandonment.
 
In recounting the days of their childhood, my narrators described – movingly and, at times, bitterly – how they grew up in homes that provided the necessities of life, but no emotional sustenance. They spoke of places of residence that offered shelter but no affection; of mothers (or mother figures) who fed and clothed the children in their care but refused to mother them; of parents so weighed down by poverty and incessant fighting that the tension released itself in yelling and violence. Growing up in a dirt floor apartment, the home of a boot-legging aunt, and the crowded tenement buildings nearby the Halifax harbour in the 1940s, they evoked emotional geographies over which they had not even sensory control. They did not feel at home in the transient and fragile living arrangements that parents and relatives provided, but out of place and on the margins.
 
We know little of the interior worlds of children growing up in broken homes. Drawn from my larger oral history project on wartime childhoods in St. John’s (Newfoundland),  Halifax (Nova Scotia), and Saint John (New Brunswick) during the Second World War, this research talk contemplates what the historian Carolyn Steedman once called “lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don’t quite work.”

This talk will take place from 5-7PM in Room 303 of UNB’s Tilley Hall (Macaulay Lane, Fredericton). You are invited to RVSP (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitter-tales-remembering-wartime-childhoods-in-halifax-nova-scotia-1939-tickets-1981792775540?aff=oddtdtcreator)  for the purposes of catering (light refreshments will be provided), but no one will be turned away.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Fredericton
- **state**: NB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 9 Macaulay Lane, Tilley Hall Room 303, Fredericton, NB, Canada, New Brunswick
- **lat**: 45.94648
- **long**: -66.64178
- **full address**: 9 Macaulay Lane, Tilley Hall Room 303, Fredericton, NB, Canada, New Brunswick

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- **organizer**: The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society (https://allevents.in/org/the-gregg-centre-for-the-study-of-war-and-society/14810110)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 9 Macaulay Lane, Tilley Hall Room 303, Fredericton, NB, Canada, New Brunswick
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society
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