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Chris’s First Days in Canada
That evening, as he contemplated his dilemma and with only five dollars in his pocket, a “rough-looking character” sat down beside him. First, the man began speaking to him in English. When Chris didn’t answer, he switched to German, and then Danish. Chris told his story to the stranger he later learned was a Danish–American bricklayer, and they immediately struck up a friendship.
Listen to an interview in which Chris describes being dumped unceremoniously in Toronto by the "wrong" Beamsville family and meeting the Danish–American bricklayer. (CMC, Christian Bennedsen Collection)
The Danish Good Samaritan took Chris under his wing for the rest of the weekend, and, on Monday morning, brought him back to Union Station, where he waited for the CNR offices to open.
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I get
the impression
that Canada is
a wonderful free country, one can come and go as
it pleases without signing out and in
at 117 different places. |
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Chris Bennedsen to Anna Bennedsen, January 7, 1952. (CMC, Christian Bennedsen Collection, Correspondence series, Box P-29, 11th group, translated from Danish by Chris Bennedsen)
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