Ancestors in the Attic

Marguerite searches for answers to her mother's breakdown and the destruction of her own life.

When she was 13, Natalia's father was forced out of the country to avoid execution.

Bob Stoutley recently discovered that his father took a dramatic secret to the grave.

Melville Madden, a 28-year-old, spends Christmas Eve in one of the bloodiest battles in history.

After fleeing Eastern Europe in 1928, Sidor treasured letters from home.

Neither Tami Georgi nor Kathie Mackie planned to fall for a WWI soldier. A few years ago, Tami bought a batch of post cards on Ebay written by Clement Peake, a young Canadian soldier. Kathie found her soldier in an abandoned house in Cape Breton.

During WWII, Al Lambert's plane was shot down over German-occupied France and he went missing. For 5 months, his family feared the worst. Then they heard he was alive. Although Al Lambert lived a long life, he never told his family what happened during those 5 months.

Jonathan Hart is an unusual 15-yr-old: while his friends are off chasing girls, Jonathan’s been chasing a mystery. He has long been captivated by the legend of Cyril Gardner, a relative who fought in WWI

When she was in Grade 3, Denice Brown made a startling discovery - she was part Chinese. Despite asking, her father refused to ever tell her anything about her Chinese ancestry or about his life before arriving in Canada.