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… even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the … on a bench waiting for their train. They are students from the West Indies, explains Conlin, in Canada on a student visa and bound for their … about the history of their history on Canadian Museum of Human Rights website. A Black sleeping car porter swings down from the Colonist …
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… (Miller). Reginald and Dorothy Married January 1, 1935. In the early days of their marriage, Dorothy worked as a nurse's aid, and Reginald … a fire underneath to boil the whites. The darks were hand washed in a tub, then were rinsed and hung on the line to dry. The children helped … was 1952, and Landowner was to sell all his holdings of 650 acres. Due to age and finances, Reginald, his brother Harold, and his Mother, …
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… March 29, 1953 were all of these things and more. Fifty years to the day of their arrival at Pier 21 the three surviving members of that … was a young structural engineer that had been sponsored by Avro to come to Canada and work on the Avro Arrow project. When asked about … know a debit from a credit." He learned fast enough when, on his first day, they handed him a box with one hundred thousand dollars in it and …
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… china, glassware, flatware, and what I like to ask visitors when they come to do the activity with me is where does it all go? Which piece is for … the under plate, the first few courses will be served and placed on top of it until you are ready for the entrée and then the charger is …
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… John and Mark. In the year 2000 I had the great fortune (and a dream come true) to visit them and acquaint myself with the rest of the … For the most part, the voyage was uneventful. I remember, however, the day my faithful mouth organ fell overboard. It would be quite sometime … fast?" "When will I ever learn to speak this difficult language?" One day, while cleaning a table, a customer called me and asked me for …
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… PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started before … a Canadian Army camp on Bramshott Common on one side of the main London Portsmouth Road, and a hospital on the other side. So when the war … we could walk. So my Dad relented. On the 24th of June 1944, a lovely day, and after Steve having to bail his best-man, George Nelson, out of …
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… Told by his daughter: Maria Teresa Di Ioia PART ONE Reasons for immigrating to Canada: To look for work in … faces of relatives standing on the platform of the station to welcome them to this new land. Years later, my family recorded their first … to give thanks to God for the great blessing of family and for the chance to start a new life in this great land we call Canada. In …
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… Olive. In 1944, she married Bob Cunneyworth, an Airman with the Royal Canadian Air Force. In doing so, she set the wheels in motion for what … who had been holding war exercises for the past year. In those early days of the war, I was a member of a social club that volunteered to … double bunks. I slept on the bottom and placed my baby Diane in the top bunk as did the other lady and her baby with whom I shared the …
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… so bad we could not get out of bed and we did not see each other for days. I remember one morning the stuart came and ordered all the woman to the top bunks and the children to the bottom ones and he put nets in front … leaning on each other but at least we were together again. The next day all we saw was snow, cars only the roofs showing and houses and …