From Ambridge to Aunt Alma's ... To Find My Canadian Roots

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Charles Collingwood, The Archers' Brian Aldridge, crosses a continent to discover where his own script began wife Molly in Alberta in 1942 I WAS 15 when I discovered I was foreign. In 1958, I needed my first passport to visit a school friend in Germany.

'He'll have to have a Canadian one,' the passport office told my parents.

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From Ambridge to Aunt Alma's ... To Find My Canadian Roots

'If he was born in Canada, he's Canadian!' My father, Flt Lt Jack Collingwood, an instructor officer with Bomber Command, was stationed in Canada in 1942-43. My mother, Molly, joined him. The real war was far away across the Atlantic. The winters were long and cold and my parents had time on their hands. On May 30, 1943, at the Chipman Memorial Hospital, St Stephen, New Brunswick, little Charles Collingwood emerged.

My wife Judy and I planned a sentimental journey to my birthplace. First stop New Brunswick, then across to Alberta and, lastly, t...

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