{"id":7371,"date":"2012-04-02T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2012-04-03T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T11:46:23","slug":"ten-years-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/ten-years-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago today, <a href=\"http:\/\/c-raine.com\/\">Catherine<\/a> and I landed in our adopted home. There was snow on the ground. Late in the day, we checked into the Holiday Inn at Martin Grove and Dixon. We hadn&#8217;t brought clothes for snow.<\/p>\n<p>The next day we went to stay at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web.net\/~tmm\/\">meeting house<\/a>. The day after I braved slush and the Warden bus for a job interview at Warden and Alden in Markham. There were still farms at Warden and Steeles.<\/p>\n<p>Until we moved in here in late June, we house sat, couch-surfed, whatever you want to call it. We relied so much upon the kindness of then-strangers. So thank you to: Don and all the Bowyers, Jane Orion, Brett &amp; Nancy, Lynn &amp; Tam, Brydon &amp; Ren\u00c3\u00a9; to Les for the first job at Gandalf, to Dave and the TREC crew for being there at the start of a new industry.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t blog back then, kept no journal, and took few photographs. The first few years were tough \u00e2\u20ac\u201d early 2003 might be a special low point, with a bitter winter, a dreadful job and a flooded basement. Every tiny detail of the immigration process seemed so important at the time, but now barely registers. Getting a SIN card up on St Clair? Biggest deal ever, then.<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks to everyone, here&#8217;s home now. I think it was the right move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago today, Catherine and I landed in our adopted home. There was snow on the ground. Late in the day, we checked into the Holiday Inn at Martin Grove and Dixon. We hadn&#8217;t brought clothes for snow. The next day we went to stay at the meeting house. The day after I braved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[315,1200,188,1745],"class_list":["post-7371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-anniversary","tag-canada","tag-citizenship","tag-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1UT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7371\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}