1 - A Legal Immigrant- The Trip

This is the TSS Neptunia, circa May 1955. My mother and I travelled across the north Atlantic from Bremerhaven, Germany to join my father in Toronto, Canada. We were some of the many immigrants who migrated to North America after the War from Europe. I recall a storm at sea a few days out where my mother and myself were the only passengers in the dining room for meals for several days so we were invited to come eat with the crew. I can still recall the sea air and the feeling of the ship rolling beneath my feet. The cabin we stayed in was basically a box below the water line that contained a couple of dressers and four bunk beds. We shared the room with another lady and her son.

I don't recall the trip up the St Lawrence Seaway but do recall docking and seeing my father dockside waiting for us. I really had no concept that I was in a foreign country when we arrived. My father had arrived the year before and prepared the way for us.

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