Adoption Reunion Story

Chapter Three

After travelling through the Rockies, east into Alberta, and then to Saskatchewan, K.H. and G.M. and a few other people who we'd picked up hitch hiking, were all arrested by the R.C.M.P. -- the car was stolen!

I was put on a year's probation, and Nick got a few months in jail.  After he served his time, he was deported across the border, to the U.S.  I had gone home to my sister's place first, then gone back to my mum's. 

Nick came back across the border, to be with me.  The police picked him up, and he was taken north to Edmonton, Alberta.  Immigration demanded that he have a sponsor, who would vouch for him. My mum put up the $10,000 bond (she didn't have to actually come up with the money, it was all on paper, which was good, because she was still on welfare!) and signed the papers so that Nick could stay in Canada.

He was told by Immigration to get a job, and prove he could be a good citizen or they would send him back to the States.  This angered both Nick and I -- who were they to tell us how to live, and to interfere in our lives??!

(Remember, this was in the days of hippies, hitch hiking, and U.S. deserters and draft dodgers coming to Canada.  Nick had been in the Army, but got a honorable discharge, "Not suitable for military life". Later I would find out why....)

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