Van Der Gulik, Lucia

Lucia Van Der Gulik never had any formal education in her native Dutch language and was very young when she came to Canada from the Netherlands in 1970 with no real knowledge of the English language. It was very hard for her to communicate. However she was determined and learned the language, little bits at a time while she worked as a babysitter and house cleaner. With little education and no English background at all, she didn't have much of a chance of getting anything better than that. She and her husband lived in British Columbia for the first year and then moved to Ontario, where she has...