Description
Mr. Agerbak talks about seeing a very different world upon arrival.
Borge Agerbak
Borge Agerbak was born in Odense, Denmark and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1927 to a small town in southern Manitoba called Pilot Mound. Mr. Agerback worked on the farm until war broke out in 1939. Along with his two brothers, he decided to join the Winnipeg Grenadiers.
Transcript
It’s a beautiful place really, it’s a nice location, it’s certainly a very impressive harbor and not having been too involved with the Chinese and that sort of thing it was a novelty to see so many of them and such a mixture of people really, because Hong Kong of course was an international community and you met, you could see everybody and practically hear every kind of language on earth in that particular spot, so. Yes, it was certainly something very, very different from what a young fellow coming off the farm had been used to for sure. I thought that the people were very receptive to the Canadians. Whether they gave the Brits or the others the same reception, I don’t know, but they certainly gave us a reception that was very impressive.