Sicamous, December 20 1947

In a letter to his mother in broken English my father explains that it started snowing today and the water on the lake has started to freeze, but the entire lake will not freeze until January or February.  He writes "it is not too bad, we can with boat in Sicamous go".  He tells her that every Monday and Friday he and his grandfather go to Sicamous but because of where the lake is frozen they must first take the horses to Mr. Wood's place and then go to Sicamous with his boat.  In the letter he describes that one week ago he went to Sicamous with his grandfather "and we have one petit petit bateau" (little little boat) which became swamped by water.  It appears that would be the reason that they now use Mr. Wood's boat.  The Woods family were well established on their property.  They had constructed a boat house that they used to build their own boats. 
My father then writes "There is no girls, mens and mens, and no movie pictures, no dancing, no what you will".  My father was after all 18 years old and it seems had enjoyed some of the activities of the big city of Geneva.  He concludes the letter by asking that his mother come to Canada; "I can no learn english, I can no you kiss and there is best for you".  He makes an argument that Switzerland could one day be invaded by Russia and she would lose her job with the government, "and finish the funny day, finish the liberty, finish the job". 

I would guess that my father was homesick.