Name: How Taiwan Saved His Life 加拿大人到中國工作卻生病?台灣醫療救了他一命??他想當台灣人永遠住在台灣❤️
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So I was living in Taiwan, but living in China as well, so I was going back and forth.

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I was working for a zipper factory there as a COO and for a while working there inside of a factory.

I saw the real part of China, came back to Taiwan, my fever was insane, to really go to a real hospital, and the doctor said,

Kyle, if you didn't come back in eight hours, you'd be dead.

I do consider myself Taiwanese, and I will live here until the day I die.

So, like yourself, I'm from Canada, but I'm from the East Coast.

It's a peninsula, so it's on the East Coast of Canada, and it's part of the Maritime Provinces, so if you're familiar with the Titanic movie, or the event,

the people from my hometown went to rescue those people, and a lot of those people settled in my hometown because they were en route to go to New York and start a new life there, but they figured that my hometown treated them so well that they wanted to settle there.

The other big thing that came out of my hometown, there's a few actually, is the Halifax Explosion.

So that was the world's largest explosion in human history before the atomic bomb.

Yeah, and so two ships collided in the harbor, destroyed three cities around it, then there was a shockwave that went for tens of kilometers around.

The shockwave was caused just from the ships hitting each other, or was there something on the ships that caused it?

One ship was carrying caustic chemicals, very corrosive, and the other ship was carrying TNT.

Yeah, and what's the first thing that happens when you hear such a big explosion outside your house?

So they went to the windows, the glass blew in, and immediately we had the world's largest group of blind people that the world has ever seen.

Yeah, so in 1918, in March the following year, we created what's called the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

I mean, in a park like this, the road behind us there, after 5 p.m. you wouldn't be able to see that far because it's just covered in fog.

Yep, yeah, and you can't use an umbrella because the wind is too strong, it'll break your umbrella, so you just, you deal with it.

So, but because of that, a lot of people have seasonal depression.

Nova Scotia is pretty famous for pirates as well.

Like, we have the home of the blue nose, which is on the Canadian dime.

Right, so, and so Nova Scotians, you can call us blue nosers because we would go out to sea and we'd get really cold, and our nose would turn blue.

When you think of Canada, and I think people watching would agree, you don't think of pirates.

It said on Georgia's Island, we used to hang the pirates there.

We have a big citadel on top of a hill called Citadel Hill, which would have guns aimed at the harbor ready for pirates at any time.

The Maritimes is that it has a connection to Al Capone, actually.

So, Prince Edward Island, which you had just mentioned a little bit earlier, a lot of the houses there are built using the whiskey crates from Al Capone because he would send the whiskey up the coast into Prince Edward Island.

You're talking when people couldn't drink.

He would undock the crates and then put it in a false bottom boat and send it back down to the United States.

The wood would stay on the beach and people, scavengers, would use that to build their houses and stuff.

Because the way you're talking, it sounds like you could have been a history teacher.

I wanted to be Indiana Jones growing up as a kid.

Yeah, so I did go to university for ancient history, Canadian history, and I read a lot and spent a lot of time in the library.

And I used to raise money for myself because my parents didn't have a lot of money and I didn't have any, of course.

And I came across a church one time that had big black garbage bags full of every National Geographic from 1886 to 1994.

So you said you have First Nation background.

Which would be like similar to those that don't know what that is to being a aboriginal in Taiwan.

On my father's side, we're Métis, so they have my color hair, which is like a sandy blonde and brown.

And my color eyes, which would be like green, blue, gray.

And actually speak French as well on that side.

But my mom's side is Mi'kmaq, so we have dark color eyes and my mom had pitch black hair also.

Growing up as a kid, I had 390 brothers and sisters.

My family, they did what we call small options.

If you're familiar with the term like foster care, for example.

So we did foster care, respite, and small options.

Oh, they took care of different like kids.

So my family is more peculiar because we would take care of the most at risk or disadvantaged or troubled or severe disability children.

So kids that came from broken homes, kids that even had a fire in the house that had no place to put them.

Like I also lived part of my life in a funeral home.

So if you die, my dad would be the guy that drives the hearse to take your body to our house where people would wash you, give you a change of clothes, do your makeup.

Were you around the carcasses, the dead bodies?

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