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Article: Home truth: a transatlantic journey into family.(De Brou family)(Home children)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
- Author:
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The latest in transatlantic travel brought my grandfather from Westminster, U.K., to Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century; my own voyage began with the latest in transatlantic technology at the end of twentieth century. I suspect we shared the same wonderment and anxiety as the worlds that we knew changed forever. His world was British and fashioned by poverty and deprivation; my world was Canadian and built on some kind of notion of at least partial Gallic roots, ones that had shaped my scholarly and personal life. Then in a brief, electronic moment in the summer of 1999, both our worlds changed forever, as his future became my past.
"I have finally ...
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