[AT] OT NZ emigration was David Brown

[Thomas Martin]

Money apparently.  I worked in Alaska for 3 years, last century.
I've even spent a winter in Wyoming at 9,800 feet, because I was
made an offer I couldn't refuse.
One has to fund one's projects somehow.

Tom




> On 03 February 2020 at 17:04 James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> What would lure a New Zealander to Canada? The southernmost point in Canada is not that far away from where I live. Canada is having its own issues with losing manufacturing industry.
> 
> When I moved to greater Detroit 20 years ago, Windsor, Ontario, had the worlds biggest concentration of automotive related stamping and was booming. Much less automotive now. 
> 
> In the eighties the then governor of Ohio was talking up building a bridge across Lake Erie into Canada. Seemed ridiculous at the time but I think now he was dead on. They built a bridge on concrete piers across Maumee Bay that works great. The swamp on the US side really has delayed building of the Canadian financed new bridge from Windsor to Detroit. US bound bridge traffic backs up for miles through Windsor.
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> A Canadian co-worker a few years back told of working in the oil industry on the Canadian side of the North Dakota Saskatchewan line. Some back roads there went back and forth across the border with no border controls. He left due to work permit issues.
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> A Canadian engineer who struck me as a little arrogant did some robot welding cell speedup work where I worked in Detroit . Two robots collided. I was told to investigate and sure enough it was his error. He was sent to plants in Kentucky and Tennessee. Apparently more of the same was needed there. He was driving drunk one night and didn't stop right away when the cars with the flashing lights started to chase him. He maybe did not speak to the pursuers politely because he was allegedly given some of the Rodney King treatment. To top it all off, he was banned from the US for life.
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>  Thomas Martin AT List Member (tmartin at xtra.co.nz);  <snip> Last century, the foreman mechanic at the local David Brown dealership owned a Ferguson-Brown, when he migrated to Canada, it disappeared, I think it went for scrap! <snip> 
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