Title: From Denmark to Canada in 1955: A Story of Immigration
Abstract: I mmigration to Canada increased significantly in the decades immediately following the Second World War. From 1946 until 1962, over 2.1 million newcomers came to Canada, primarily arriving from war-ravaged Europe.1 These immigrants held diverse reasons for coming to Canada, made their own particular impressions of the new land and its peoples on arrival, and went about the complex process of re-establishing themselves and integrating within the host society. It is likely that many of Canada’s new immigrants experienced hardships and discrimination, but one could speculate that many also brought with them a spirit of enthusiasm for this change and the expectation that they would have a better life in their new country. This paper will explore the story of one of these immigrants, my grandmother, a German of Jewish origin who came to Canada from Denmark with her husband and three children in 1955. Kathe Therese Peschel was born in Germany on March 14th, 1910. She was the third of four daughters born to Eva Pollock, a German Jew, and Fritz Peschel, a Prussian gentleman. Kathe Therese, affectionately called “Resel” by her mother, was sent to a domestic science school for her education because she did not marry early.2 After graduating,
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-09-07
Language: en
Type: article
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