A life in three acts is an apt way to describe the journey of Henk Van der Kolk. Born in the town of Zwolle 80 miles north-east of Amsterdam, Van der Kolk now lives between Toronto – where he emigrated in 1967 to avoid Dutch military service – and Panama City, his part-time residence for the past two years. “Canada had a strong wartime relationship with Holland back then,” says Van der Kolk, who was a husband and father of three within five years of his arrival in North America.
亨克•範德柯爾克(Henk Van der Kolk)的人生歷程用三幕劇來描述再恰當不過了,他出生於阿姆斯特丹(Amsterdam)東北部80英里的茲沃勒小鎮(Zwolle),如今則在多倫多(Toronto)與巴拿馬城居住,1967年他爲躲避服兵役而移居多倫多,過去二年則把巴拿馬城當成了自己的臨時居所。「加拿大當時與荷蘭是關係很鐵的盟國,」範德柯爾克說,他移居加拿大時已結婚成家,還有三個不到五歲的孩子。