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Down in the living room is a big map of the world on the wall. Oma Kati points to where Germany is in Europe. Timmy is surprised by the big ocean between Europe and Canada. Timmy sits down on a couch.
“I had an uncle already here in Canada. He wrote that he liked it and that your opa should be able to find a job. So, in 1962, your opa and I left Erfurt in Germany and took a ship to Canada.”
She points to the top of Germany and draws a line out of Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean, and down the St. Lawrence River to Montreal.
“It was a long and exhausting journey,” Oma Kati says, “and we didn’t know what to expect when we arrived. But people were very friendly and we could live at my uncle’s place for the first few months.”
“Only one uncle?” Timmy asks. “Weren’t you lonely?”