Baby Bonus = Canada child benefit (CCB)
Your folks were lucky.
We lived in PMQs (military housing) , now called RHUs (Residential Housing Units), in Lancaster, Leicester, and CFB Montreal.
Then renting in Richmond, upon my father's transfer to RCAF Station Sea Island.
He moonlighted on the graveyard stocking crew at Woodwards , Oakridge, in Vancouver to help save for a house of their own.
In his 30s, my father did receive a paid electrical engineering degree through DOT.
My mother became a bank manager.
Yup, things worked out and they prospered, as it did for many of that generation.
Many of my generation and our children have benefited from their commitment, hard work and sacrifices.
Instant gratification and self-entitlement is where it's at now-a-days.
But that's another story.
My grandfather was a coal miner in England.
All he ever got was a lot of crud in his lungs.
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