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Evelyn had every educational opportunity available to her all throughout her high school years. She said that she thought she might want to pursue something further, but that she had married Bob when she was nineteen and you didn’t go to school and get married, it was one or the other.
What happened in my family was that my father always wanted to go to university but for some reason the three girls all got educated and he and his brother didn’t. When I asked my Aunty Kate about it she told me that “when her father came back from the war the boys had to have a good trade. So, the girls could go to school.” I think that my aunts just did a couple years of school learning to become teachers and a nurse.
Evelyn told me that her dad had always resented that fact that he hadn’t been able to further his education. When Evelyn’s brother, Albert, had the chance to go to school he felt that the family wouldn’t have enough money to put him through and so he didn’t go. He did not take the necessary courses he needed to go to University. When the time came for him to graduate, their father told Albert that they could afford to send him for at least one year.
Evelyn was very nervous about going to university and as she had been dating Bob for two years he told her that if she wanted to go to school (and the school that she would be going to was in Vancouver) then they would drift apart. He gave her an ultimatum, go to school or get married, so, she got married. Many years later, after all five of Evelyn's children were grown - she went to university and received her Master's degree.
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