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he had to So home: He finally received
the tlitd,dtaft.. Jaehad to take it or he
would remain behinid as part` of the oc-
cupational forces for ann indeterminate
amount of time, .
TIe July 1,046 wedding the couple had
planned waa suddenly moved to January
15, causing some of the town's gossipers
to ponder possible. pregnancy.
That, though, came the firstt night the
two were reunited in Canada. Nine mon-
ths to the day the couple ended their un-
wanted separation, Francyna walked to
the hospital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia
and gave birth to a daughter.
The two were married for five days
before Paul had to return to his home
country. Eight months later, following a
voyage on the Queen Mary, the couple
was reunited in Halifax.
The young man returned to Sheri, d, . gyp,
Nova Scotia with his bride. Frai,cyna
had her few English lessons but Paul's
parents were French. Until the couple's
rented house was ready she lived two
rather uncomfortable Weeks trying to ad-
just to the strange new life she had mar-
ried into.
The two lived in. Sheticamp, then mov-
ed to Antigonish and worked in their own
restaurant, Paul having trained as
cook.
,.111.014,.oxt.move toot them to a Cana,
dim Forces Base in Nova Scotia and the
association with the armed, forces has
continued throughout their fives,
Be.ore their next move, which took
them to Toronto, Francyon went on her
first trip back to Holland and dealt with
the homesickness which had plagued her
for the two and ahalf years she had lived
in Canada. After hey visit she, wasn't as
desperately homesick again
Finally they madetheir final )dove. An
old armed forces friend stationed in Clhi
ton found out that the family was in
Toronto. A Sunday visit to the Clinton
base resulted in a cooking job . which
lasted for 20 years, until the base,closed.
Francyna has been back to Holland
several times since that first trip which
settled her mindso she could live the rest
of her life in Canada away from family
and old friends. •
Her and her husband are going to make
yet another visit to the place they first
met. They will be commemorating the
40th anniversary of the end of the Euro-
pean theatre of operations in the second
global conilict.
Although her adjustment to a new
country ,was difficult Francyna says now
she "wouldn't go to live in Holland.
Although she still has her Dutch accent,
her ahnost 40 years in Canada has made
her more Canadian than Dutch - another'
piece of the Canadian mosaic.
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