Dutch Immigrants: Hutten

New Beginnings Dept: Her parents brought nine children to Nova Scotia in 1950 and then had another couple for good measure. But they were just a few of the almost 200,000 people that abandoned their homeland to forge new beginnings across the ocean, according to The Chronicle Herald. "They left behind parents, sometimes grown children, siblings, and friends, and started a whole new life." Anne van Arragon Hutten s family was part of a mass diaspora of Dutch immigrants who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. "Immigration in those days was seen as a final and definitive goodbye and I continue to wonder how so many people were able to do that," she says in a recent email interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.