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IIALTOSHILLSOUTIOOK 13 Pages The Book Corner The immigrants what it was like By ALLAN COULD For nearly IS years Barry has been known as this country greatest oral historian His is an honorable and respected field Ihe personal stories of apparently insignificant people are often for more In rightful and more moving than the diaries and records of generals and dictators We may example leam a lot more about the Second World War and human nature from a soldier let ten home than from a brass hat battle plans That Is why one turns with legitimate anticipation to Broad foots latest work The Immigrant Years From Europe to Canada Douglas and Mclntyre pages And although this reader did not find It as satisfying such Clous volumes of Broadfoot s as Lost Years it is still an document UP As the author notes Canadians were smug and affluent after the Second World War with per not wanting the British to come here It is as wc fought that war to make the safe for democracy but not necessarily to let any part of that world on to our particular shores The titles of chapters tell what one can expect here Freedom and a New Life We Were War British women come over after the war Nobody Told Us What Would Be Like Another Land Another Language Got to Get a Job and Discrimination We Never Had So Good and Canadians PUTTING IT BEHIND Some chapters are far more of feeling than others It is important to read such statements as that by the Dutchman who mocks the that many came to Canada because it was the Land of Pro- No he says we came to Canada to forget what we had to each other in th war Everyone else in the try the city the village was their enemy because they were all fighting to get one thing food First food any food food you feed your worst dog to day food no government would to be sold or fed to the Statements like that help explain riici fr Vic thank you so much Not that It was lhanks of course The worst thing In the first days was the loneliness FREEZER FRENZY FINGERS ID SUNROOF SALE Many more specials Georgetown Phono recalls one immigrant You had nobody to talk to I d sit on this lit lie bed and listen to the radio I had and when a song reminded mo of some other time I would cry 1 cried a lot If It was often a living hell to come to Canada from England already fluent in at least one of this country languages then how much more agonizing for those from Eastern and Central Europe I used the Eaton catalogue as a textbook soys one Immli rant There were pictures and the descriptions this is a sweater This is a frying pan This Is a bed And so on You see how easy It But even brightest im migrant could not get around our grotesque rules tor immigrants As one government official remembers these were men who had been doctors lawyers engineers men of quality any country would have been hap py to hove Men who had a purpose in life large mi He goes on to describe how these talented Immigrants had been told overseas that they were to downgrade their education their skills their accomplishments in order to fit into certain slots the Canadian government had set up 1 mean laborers That really was what It was all about There is some ugliness in the book as well and It t come from the immigrants cither who numbered nearly three million in the lira two decades after the war Slurs of Jealousy from native born Canadians fear of the stranger As the author puts it new comers thought that Canadians did not work hard enough They did not think that Canadians loved their country enough either and said they loved it more UNIQUE And they probably do love this country more in the way that migrants kwho have gone through war famine and heartbreak must surely do I would more in formation on the people interview by Br midfoot their ages tries of origin how well they did here what their children do But the handful or wonderful photos of immigrants almost makes up for It The Immigrant Years is an porta record and one from which native born Canadians could learn a lot The newcomers interviewed In the book They know it all only too well and often from very bitter ex Allan Gould a latest books are Letters I ve Been Meaning to Write and The New En treprcneurs Canadian Success Stories Thornton New Service SedT2S BURGER KING CHEESEBURGER Hurry in for a delicious flamebroiled Double Cheeseburger Only 139 ONLY AT THESE PARTICIPATING BURGER KING RESTAURANTS 235 Guelph Street Georgetown