Emigration To Ottawa, Canada

A Memory of Ottawa.

Ottawa has been my Home Base for nearly fifty years, having lost my faith of a future in UK during a troublesome strike by miners which was crippling the UK economy - no doubt the miners thought that the closure of the mines and the loss of their jobs justified their Union's Strike Action - this was the start of the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry squeezing out the use of dirty polluting coal.
Before retirement, I was a professional Hydrographic Surveyor, and Canada was really short of hydrographers as the Canadian Industry was starting to expand wherever it had resources to exploit - like UK, Canada had a lot of coastline, rivers, and lakes for the likes of me to be kept as busy as the demand dictated. Admittedly I tended to spend more time in my early years here away from home than being here to enjoy what Ottawa had to offer its residents and tourists. Ottawa is mainly a Government Town with a White Collar Hi-Tech Sector - it's located on the confluence of three main rivers, which in times past brought timber downriver for the Timber Barons to found industrial empires. Today Ottawa is a picturesque city attracting many tourists in good times. It is only as I drew close to retirement, that my travels away have tapered off, and I now have the time, and sometimes the energy to enjoy my Home Base. One has to love the great variety of weather patterns we have here to remain and enjoy what each season has to offer - the winter seasons tend to last two thirds of the year, and we then enjoy four months with no snow in which the gardeners try to nurture their veggies and flowers. Over the years, I have worked in many places around the world, and I have always loved getting back to my Home Base, if only for a short interlude from my professional work.

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