“(Canada) is our country as it must be the adopted country of the different peoples who come from around the globe, to make their way into its vast forests to build their homes and place their hopes. Like us, their paramount desire must be the happiness and prosperity of Canada. This is the heritage which they should endeavour to transmit to their descendents in this young and hospitable country.”
Louis LaFontaine, 1848
Thursday was networking day, with a variety of appointments and meetups all over Toronto.
It was so easy! We arrived at Lester B Pearson Airport, Toronto, yesterday morning at around 11.30 a.m. By shortly after midday, we had completed the formal immigration process – quicker and far less aggressive than arriving as visitors at Newark! No long waits (we were the only people in the immigrant office), no difficult questions or requests for information we didn’t have. Just a friendly, smiling young man who made it all very pleasant and easy.