My mother's entire family escaped from eastern Poland to Toronto right
after the war -- with my first trip there having been in 1946 or so --
and one of my sisters has been living there for 35-40 years, so I can
vouch for the fact that you're absolutely correct, at least insofar as
Toronto is concerned...but there was something very nice about that too!
To which I respond, yeah, it was 1946 or thereabouts that provoked the
comment. Sure has changed though! Toronto is like a time machine --
we've gone through a century and 3/4 in four decades. But we
digress.... Everett will start scolding us. May Christmas, New Year,
Hanukah and all the other holidays bring you all, every one, many good
books! I remember the first one I was ever given -- the old Saalfield
text of Little Women and Good Wives in one volume, Christmas of 1941 --
I have it still. Germaine
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
g.warkentin@utoronto.ca (fax number on request)
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