No Streets of Gold
Helen Potrebenko
One school assignment required each of us to draw a flag of Canada and write under it what country our parents came from. We didn’t know. We told the teacher our parents came from the Old Country, but she said that wasn’t good enough. My mother told me they came from Russia and I told the others, so we all dutifully wrote under our Union Jacks that our parents came from Russia. It seems absurd now, looking back, to remember those Canadian kids writing under a British flag that their Ukrainian and Belorussian parents came from Russia. No wonder we were confused
Categories:
Year:
1977
Publisher:
No Star Books
Language:
english
Pages:
311
ISBN 10:
0919888704
ISBN 13:
9780919888708
File:
PDF, 11.10 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1977