Then when the men would come home, they would all get together and cook dinner and work hard to stay warm. Their throats would be dry and those were not such pleasant memories. It was very cold in those days and they would wear many layers of clothes and two pairs of gloves at a time because they used to work outside. Malkit Singh recalls with pleasure when the Fraser River used to freeze and they would drive cars over it. As a newcomer to Canada, he found the work difficult in the beginning however, later things became better as he learned to adjust. In all the mills that he worked at Malkit Singh’s task was to pull lumber on the green chain. In 1991, he retired at 65 years old of age. Following that he went to work in Squamish, where he worked for five years, followed by him working in Pitt Meadows for 22 to 23 years. It was hard to find work and he heard that there was a mill near Jasper, so he went there and worked there for three years from 1962 to 1965. There was a time when Malkit Singh did not work for almost a year. Inder Singh was his relative and he was the one who had sent the sponsorship for his brother in the first instance. He does not remember the name of the mill but it was owned by prominent community member Inder Singh Gill. Malkit Singh found his first job by going to work in the mill that his relatives owned in Mission. After immigration opened up, sponsorship was sent for all his brothers and sisters and parents. His brother was single too when he first came, but then he was married in 1963.
People were living single as bachelors in the early years in Canada. The rest of his family came ten years after Malkit Singh when the immigration laws opened up. His brother had come earlier by ship in 1952, but Malkit Singh came by plane. He was 26 years old at the time, married and working in India with his family as a farmer.
He came to Canada in 1959 when his brother sent the sponsorship papers to him under the quota system. Malkit Singh Sidhu was born on November 13 th, 1926 at his maternal parents Village, Khosa Pando Ke, District Moga (then it was District Faridkot).
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