Nice to see this thread revived. Since this thread started.A local friends daughter married a south American working in Canada. The family expects the couple will eventually live back there.

A very nice person and few south Americans ever seem to work this far north. He is a welding inspector and she is a social worker. Both work in the oil sands area of Canada.

He is very smart, very personable, and very outgoing. I may ask him sometime how he acquired perfect English and maybe not. There is no other accent that is detectable in his speech.

Come to think of it he does not look like the typical person of that region. So he could be from a family there from yet another background.

Equador is his home country. Or at least where his own family currently resides. Both of them are in their mid to later twenties. They fly to south America a couple of times a year as well as to the east coast here to visit her family at least once a year.

The oil sands patch is a real visual mess. Has a tremendous remaining capacity. Although from a financial perspective it has really helped Canada out. It is still a real and growing mess.

Parents and the large physical distances their children can land up at today are perhaps not historically typical. One of our doctors sons married into the largest prescription drug manufacturer family in India. Their daughter was a university student here with him.

The doctors four sons are gifted to say the least. My wife had a major involvement with all of them educational wise years ago. We are told by our doctor that she still comes up in conversation by them when their family gets together. I have always suspected the wife could run a country and would probably do well at it. All the boys landed up in very high caliber jobs where frequent extensive world travel is involved. They are officers of the world bank etc.

We have a substantial history with our doctor. Like the time he dropped by with two of the boys. One boy picked up a brick and nailed the other in the forehead with it. They were pretty young then and a slight scar remains.