South Saskatchewan Regiment and Liberation of Netherlands

Walter Stevens was born in November of 1907 in Kent. His father served with the Naval Reserve and was killed in the explosion of the Vanguard in July of 1917. Walter was sent to St. Vincent's Industrial School in Kent and in 1923 sent to Canada through the British Home Child Program as it is now known. Walter along with 51 other children sent to Canada by the Catholic Emigration Society. Walter spent three years in indentured servitude to a French Canadian family in Quebec before making his way west and settling in Saskatchewan. As he was fluent in French from his time spent with the French Ca... Mehr ...