It was exactly 40 years ago yesterday, on December 5, 1973, that I arrived in Canada with my mother, father and my two brothers. I recall my paternal Grandmother looking through the window as her breath fogged the glass. She kept wiping it clear and struggled to see us. I made a funny face at her... access page ...
It was exactly 40 years ago yesterday, on December 5, 1973, that I arrived in Canada with my mother, father and my two brothers. I recall my paternal Grandmother looking through the window as her breath fogged the glass. She kept wiping it clear and struggled to see us. I made a funny face at her as she was clearly distressed that her son, daughter in-law and grandchildren were leaving. It is a moment that continues to haunt me as I feel terrible about doing that to her, to trifle with her feelings so inconsiderately. I was only 9 and did not mean harm. I simply did not understand what I had done. More importantly how I made my father's mother feel.
When we emigrated to Canada, we first had to go to Austria and all family members had to be medically checked and proven healthy as a condition of emigration. Dad had to bring money and had to find a guarantor. None of us could have a criminal record.
We left the former Yugoslavia leaving our home behind. It overlooked the coast of the Adriatic Sea. My father was tipped off that when President Tito would die, civil war would likely erupt putting his children in grave danger because we were Hungarian. My brothers and I would have been place on the front lines, where the chances of survival are slim to none.
After dad drove to the airport in Frankfurt, he parked his Audi and left it there. My younger brother and I were told we were going on vacation to Austria. I remember telling that to my classmates in November of 1973. It was the last time I saw my friends and relatives for 15 years. Visiting was very dangerous as I could have been deemed AWOL and immediately arrested and made to serve two years in the army. When I visited in 1989, indeed a man made me go to a booth where a big black book was opened. I could read upside down that the hand written last names began to match mine. From Vi to Vincz. I was terrified that I would see my name, but the large heavy man slapped the book closed and told me I was free to go.
We arrived at Pearson International Airport and had to take two cabs as our luggage would not fit in one alone. We ended up at the Holiday Inn near Yorkdale Plaza with my mother and my younger brother. I was terrified that dad and my older brother were not arriving. An hour later they arrived delayed by a flat tire.
Back then, you had to live in Canada with immigrant status for 5 years before you could become Canadian Citizens. We did so in 1978.
I am very happy and thankful I live in a Canada, although it is not as good now as it was 40 years ago. I miss my home land and often yearn to be back home near the ocean that I love and the memories it kept neatly folded within it. Many, many fond memories.
wonderful story. I too have memories kept neatly folded within my heart of my past, my parents though I was born in Canada
I had no choice I was born in this country 63 years 3 months 18 days ago > I have been to 76 countries in this world there are better places than here > Mexico for one
I love this country. Although she has suffered under imperfect human leadership, she remains my heart, and I will love her until my last breath.
We take so much for granted, being raised in a free nation. Things other people only dream about. Things your father dreamt about Attila. I am glad your father had the courage to leave the home of his heart to save his family. He unknowingly made this country a better place.
Attila Vinczer It is not the country I have issue with Yvonne, it is the people who have made it not so hospitable as it was 40 years ago. Canada has changed and it has changed not for the better as it should have. Forty years ago, a parent could discipline his child and not worry about being arrested or having CAS take your child(ren). One did not need to worry about how politically correct it was to celebrate Christmas and express all the related customs about it. Men did not need to worry about losing everything due to the popularity of divorce driven by women. Men did not need to worry about being put in jail on the mere word of any female, young or old. Abortion was illegal.
I have lived four fifths of my life in Canada, which I consider my home. I think I have earned the right to be critical, not of Canada which is beautiful to the core, but the people who have exploited and continue to do so, stepping all over those immigrants who worked hard to shape Canada, such as my mother and father.
To say that Canada is a free nation, is not true and certainly not true for males or females for that matter, that live here. We are deeply enslaved to the regime and the cost of sustaining that regime has become unbearable. Tell me how we are free when I can call CAS, make a false allegation and your life becomes an instant hell. Fewer of us are having to sustain the more of us. Forty years ago most of us sustained some of us. And only those of us the had no other means of doing so.
Yvonne Evanoff Point taken.
But she has only changed because of apathy.
This nation was founded on the Bible. It is people (evil, self-serving people) who have done the things you speak of.
This will not improve until we turn back to God, and ask for forgiveness. He can bless this great nation again, and He will if we get down on our knees and pray that He heal our land.
We need to oppose evil laws, and stand in the gap for the truth. We need to protect our neighbors. Even if it costs us our freedom.
Attila Vinczer Even our Charter is founded on the principals of God! Yet we spit in his face by the way he is so deeply disrespected. I agree that there is a growing void of empathy as a routine while it is flaunted for superficial selfish reasons under false pretence. Apathy has taken a strong hold for sure. If we threw away all the law books and merely followed the ten commandments, society would begin to heal.
Yvonne Evanoff God's Church here in Canada, needs to forsake her "tax-free" status in favour of righteousness. Babies are being slaughtered every day, and the Church will not speak out against it for fear of being stripped of her tax-free status! This is unforgivable. And the same goes for every other evil law that has passed while the Church stood by and watched.
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Wow, you hit the tarmac 5 months and 13 days before I did, my trip wasn't as dramatic though, although we were delayed in Frankfurt by a day. My first, of many, Air Canada delays.
The first ten were merely instructions of Love put into words ... Clear precise and to the point .
Off Topic guys . I think Polygamy is the way to go . Polygamous marriages are stronger eh ..----- there ---- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamous
Polygamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Polygamy (from πολ?ς γ?μος polysgamos, translated literally in Late Greek as "many married")[1] is a marriage which includes more than two partners.[1] When a man is married to more than one wife at a time, the relationship is called polygyny; and when a woman is married to more than one husband at…
a lot of people today have decided on serial monogamy... the plural of spouce is spice, no?
Attila Vinczer Would that be the Spice Girls Ian?
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