Thelma Unruh

Thelma Unruh: The old brown suitcase her mother kept Christmas ribbons and bows in didn't mean much to Thelma Unruh when she was a little girl. It had belonged to her father, who never spoke about his childhood. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Unruh didn't find out the secret until after her dad died and she was a grown woman with a family of her own. She was watching TV and ironing clothes when she saw a program about poor children from Britain who were shipped off to work in Canada. Each child was given a little brown suitcase -- identical to her dad's. Thelma Unruh displays a photo of her father with the little brown suitcase he arrived in Canada with in 1910 as an 11-year-old. PHIL HOSSACK / Photo Store She had no idea the brown suitcase held the secret to her dad's past. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.