O. K. and R. Chomiak

I consider September 4, 1949 my second birthday. I was born again on that date when I became a landed immigrant in Canada. Six years later I became a citizen - for the first time in my life. Being an East European during WWII I was an "Auslander", a refugee, a Displaced Person and whatever. Finally I came to Pier 21 in 1949 as a teenager and began to be a real person; a born again person.

Ross Chomiak