I Never Saw One Canadian . . . it Really Burnt my Butt.
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I Never Saw One Canadian . . . it Really Burnt my Butt.
I was happy but I never seen one Canadian till I got onto
Victoria Island. That burnt my backside. In San Francisco we
were given $50 apiece, by the Americans, never one Canadian.
Never seen a Canadian until we got on the ferry to go to
Victoria, and that’s, I held that against the Canadian people
too. And, well we spent, oh pretty near another week on the
island there in the army hospital there and got deloused and
needles and medical so we didn’t carry any diseases. And then
they took us back to Vancouver and loaded on a train for home. I
just remember getting, like we landed in the station in Winnipeg
and we come up and I guess my parents had been notified because
they were at the station. Well, I was reported missing. Instead
of my brother it was me that was, when I came off the train,
they were surprised it was me and not my brother Tiger.
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