A woman reports the reasons for which they emigrated from Constantinople to
Canada.
M.K.: Eh, Canada supervened, basically when I’ll have
to go further back a little… when I met my husband, my current husband of
course, then we were in 1963 we met each other, in ’64 we got engaged when it
started to take place… in 1964 it was the period of the deportations and they
had deported the brother-in-law of my hus… of my then fiancé, so the day he
left… my sister-in-law was also leaving from… from Constantinople by ship and
it was a very, very, let’s say emotional time that one, it was the time that
my father had said basically that this is the beginning of the end. Because
someone was leaving from within the family now, there was no case, even though
families had suffered much before that, but this was the… this was the
deathblow. And after there we sat anyway as a couple and we considered what
we’re going to do, where we’re going to build our nest. Eh, there was no
language issue, we were both we knew English, French, there was no case.
Meanwhile my fiancé was employed in an English company and we decided, we said
at some point that he ought to continue his studies and the next… the next
station was Canada. And we came to Canada right away.
