Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 77 Parsons and van Boetzelaer made a break for it. For three weeks they made their way to the Allies posing as German sisters, with Mona feigning a speech impediment to cover her accented German. The women became separated and Parsons eventually reached a Canadian battalion, the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. Post-War Life Parsons and her husband Leonhardt were reunited after the war, but he never fully recovered from his imprisonment and died in 1956. Parsons returned to Nova Scotia in 1957, where she became reacquainted with a childhood friend, Harry Foster. They married in 1959 and lived in Halifax. Foster died in 1964; Parsons moved back to Wolfville in the late 1960s, where she remained until her death. Awards and Honours She received a commendation for her war efforts from British Air Marshal Lord Tedder and US President Eisenhower. Mona Parsons continued ... The stamp, which was unveiled during an event in Wolfville, N.S., features a portrait of Parsons with a photograph of infantry soldiers of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders advancing into the Netherlands. Designed by Larry Burke and Anna Stredulinsky, it was part of Canada Post’s annual Remembrance Day stamp issue. According to a news release from Canada Post, the stamp honours Parsons’s “remarkable courage and perseverance” during the Second World War. In 2023 Canada Post unveiled a new stamp in honour of Mona Parsons, a war hero from Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
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