Joannie Yurchuk:  

Life Hi! I attended Malcolm Campbell for grades eight and nine. At the end of grade nine, I left Montreal and headed to Toronto, where I lived for about eight months before I headed out to Sydney, Australia with my family. What an awesome place Australia is! The weather is heaven and the people are the most amazingly friendly and honest people I met during my travels. I lived in Australia from 1967 to the end of 1970, when I left to back pack through Europe with my fiance who is English. Well, our plans were put on hold after we visited Tahiti, Panama,Curacao and Portugal; I was pregnant! Marriage soon followed and my husband and I spent ten years in England, where we had our three lovely children. We were bitten with the urge to travel again, and although i really wanted to return to Australia, we instead came to Canada. For my husband it was a new start in a new country, but for me it was a chance to get in touch with my roots and try and regain some of my own culture (and accent!). At first we lived in Elliot Lake in Northern Ontario, and then moved to Deep River and then Pickering, Ontario. My husband found himself a job at Ontario Hydro and I worked as a nurse's aide on a part time basis so I could spend as much time as possible with my children. Well, one thing led to another, and I told my husband I was moving out. That was the best decision of my life and as I was working for TD Bank at the time, I felt secure in my job and life just kept getting better and better. Friends introduced me to a lovely man, who is now my second husband, Bob. Bob hails from Atikokan in Northwestern Ontario. We lived in downtown Toronto for ...Expand for more