In 1972, my wife and I made a life changing decision. Tricky Dick Nixon had just been re-elected for a second term as President of the United States by an overwhelming vote, and I realized that I just didn’t trust the American voters, to determine what my future was to be living in the US, so we decided to try to immigrate to Canada, which is what we successfully did in 1973. It was a decision, I am extremely happy we had made. We have been very happy with our lives in Canada,
In March of 2012, our door bell rung and I wondered who it could be. Its a good thing I didn’t spend any time trying to guess, because I would have never been able to do it. It was Vince Vecchio. That’s Vince standing on the right hand side of the photo. He is someone I had often seen in town, but I don’t really know him very well.
Anyway, when I opened the door and saw Vince, he handed me the photo you see above. I didn’t have my reading glasses on, but I could tell the photo was an image of a group of people, but little else. Vince said he was rummaging through some of his old papers and found it, and he thought we might enjoy having a copy. I thanked him and was appreciative of his effort, but I still didn’t really know what the photo was about.
After he left, and I was back in the house, I put my reading glasses on and saw that what Vince had given me was a newspaper photo taken of the small group of us that had gotten our Canadian citizenship in March, 1979. I had forgotten that it had happened on my mother’s birthday. I went back and found my 1979 diary in order to refresh my memory about the event. I hadn’t written much about the ceremony, except to say that we drove the 50 miles to Valemount and it had been short and sweet.
It was really nice of Vince to bring the photo by. I colorized my wife and I in the photo, so you could identify us among the small group of local, newly-legalized, Canadian citizens.
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