An Immigrant's Tale: India to Canada

This is a story about a 25-year-old immigrant who left India in June 1969 to travel to Canada with eight dollars in his pocket. Times were different then: there were no credit cards or mobile phones at that time. There would be no job waiting for him when he arrived in Canada, so, he was travelling into the unknown. In those days, air line travel was expensive, but it had its perks. One of the perks was you were allowed to break journey and stay overnight on the route; airlines would pay fo...