Nigel Gordijk of Waterloo, Ont., says he knew so much about his mother’s family history, but very little about his father’s family, and it made him feel “unbalanced.”
“Most of my life I’ve been curious about their story and that side of my ancestry,” he said in an interview with CBC.
Growing up in the United Kingdom, he said he had a strong sense of his Chinese heritage because it was well-documented by his mother’s family members.
“I knew so much about one side of my family and virtually nothing about the other side,” Gordijk said. “It felt unbalanced.”
Driven by curiosity and a desire to fill
