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From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Appearance before Citizenship Hearings in Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:54:34 -0300
In-Reply-To: <000f01c54749$35564c80$a1434546@mitchhhakcig8q>


Hi Annette, thanks so much for this story. Yes, it's all relevent, the
stories have a painfully similar theme - denial of citizenship and then the
long, convoluted path through the bureaucracy to obtain proof.

Melynda



Melynda Jarratt, BA, MA (History)
Diploma in Digital Media and Design
Webmaster: http://www.canadianwarbrides.com and http://www.project-roots.com
Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of
World War Two is available in English at
http://www.project-roots.com/books.html and in Dutch at
http://www.uitgeverijpica.nl/index.html?page=achterbleven




----Original Message Follows----
From: Annette Fulford <>
To: Melynda Jarratt <>,
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Appearance before Citizenship Hearings in Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:40:18 -0700

I don't know if this would be considered the same situation but my
grandmother came to Canada in 1919 as a war bride. Her status upon arriving
was a Landed Immigrant. In 1925 she applied for a passport and travelled to
England to visit her parents. While she was in England she had my father (in
February 1926). He arrived in Canada 19 June 1926, age 4 months, as a Landed
Immigrant.

He lived and worked his whole life in Canada. He even joined the army for 2
1/2 years between 1944 and 1946. But when it came time for him to receive a
pension, he had to apply for his Citizenship first. Because he wasn't sure
when he arrived in Canada (this was before the Immigration Records 1925-1935
database was available). He had to find people who knew all his life to
attest that he had been in Canada a long time. He even sent them the cover
of his Soldier Service Book. He did eventually get his citizenship card but
not without the hassle.

I found his arrival in the database mentioned above, one month after he
passed away in 2000.

Annette

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