“Well you had to be sponsored in those days in order to get to Canada. So I was sponsored by Tom. He just started a fishing lodge, and I worked for him for about a year, not quite a year, I guess. And that was about it.”
“I got my sponsor through the government. But when I was here, anybody come and gotta work for a year on the farm of a place. So I sponsored first my sister. My sister worked for Len Jones here for a year.”
“He was supposed to be sponsored when he got over here. They landed in Montreal, him and his wife. They were pretty young. And when they got here, he had no papers or anything saying where he was going or anything. And he said they didn’t have a dime. He said they slept on the park bench that night. And he said the next morning they got up, he found a two dollar bill, just on the sidewalk. He says that’s how they got their start on Canada, eh.”
Words of Wolfe Island 