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… Ethel C. Mitchell Small Ridge …
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… Inge Nielsen Inge came to Canada with her sister Birthe Marie and … join my father, Johannes Nielsen, who had emigrated to Canada in 1928. We travelled by rail from Halifax through Montreal to Toronto, where my … Ellen M. Nielsen, Birthe and Inge …
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… Sgt Walter B.A. Dennison …
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… Who is the Little Boy in this Picture? …
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… In 2011, we took one month and half to find a good school for my boy, through all our possible channels. You needed connections to get a … it is a picture of my 17 year-old boy when we immigrated to Canada. My boy, you will have many colours in your future, not only black and … My Boy, He is Seventeen by Lu …
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… and aunt but my memories are of having a wonderful time,” Alan wrote. “We had tricycles with fixed wheels (the pedals drove the wheels … stuck on the front door and weren’t allowed out and no-one was allowed in. Measles was a yellow card, German Measles a green one, I think, and … Colour-Coded Quarantine and a Boy at Play …
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… Whenever I have talked about this trip later on, I have always mentioned how well this journey was organized. It must have been a mammoth job for … be quite some time before my turn would come. So when I received a telegram from that Canadian Wives Bureau on July 9, 1946 that I should …
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… Art lived with his parents at 65 Ennerdale Rd Toronto and worked for Westminister Publishing Co. Arthur lied about his age (added a year to … Infantry Battalion. In France Art served at Ypres, Somme and Vimy Ridge. At Ypres from early August 1916 to September 1916 he served as a … land. He also acted as a scout (a soldier that at night would worm his way across the no-man's land between the lines) and attempt to draw the …
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… Margaret Chase Huxford On September 3rd I was in Times Square, New York. I saw the declaration of war spelt out on … city. I felt the British could get on without me for another three weeks, and so I stayed. What I do remember with warmth was the fact … follow him myself a year later with our baby daughter. In the meantime we, like many Halifax families, wondered how best we could contribute …
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… 1951 with her parents and her surviving brother and sister (Béla and Éva died before they left for Canada). In the years that followed, they … they settled and worked very hard to make a living and eventually buy a suburban house. Unfortunately, the happy life to which they so … picturing that, come the end of the war, things would return to the way they had been in his memories. It goes without saying that things …