• Bombardier John Hamilton Glawson
    … John Hamilton Glawson 26 May 1923 – 2 August 2003 Member of Hartney Branch #26 & Brandon … Bette (born in 1931). During the depression, the family moved to a “soddy” (a small home constructed with sod blocks, twigs, thin branches and …
  • Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project
    By Haroon Khalid, Anam Zakaria, and Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, and we will always be okay, hopefully.” Rammah Mohammad. [1] Introduction In 2024, the Canadian …
  • Lieutenant Walter Melvin White
    … Lieutenant Walter M. White Walter M. White was born in Princeport, Colchester County, Nova Scotia on October 25, 1914, the third son of Morton … (died at age 2), Delta, Donald, and Marilynn. Walter and three of his foster brothers, Arthur and twins Eden and Elbert, were all in …
  • Nicholas Bosiuk
    … Our great-grandfather Nicholas (Mikolaj) Bosiuk was born on September 26, 1903 in Zelena, … Ethelbert, Manitoba, he was able to immigrate to Canada. After bidding his family and friends goodbye, he dressed into the nearly new clothes …
  • The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part I
    by Daniel Meister, PhD Introduction: The Context of Colonialism “Let us take possession of Canada. Let our cry be CANADA FOR THE BRITISH.” - Isaac Barr [1] At the turn of the twentieth century, the two largest groups of immigrants to Canada by nationality were Americans and British. British …
  • From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    … employment. Population growth accompanied this, with London, already a city of one million in 1800, home to 1.4 million as early as 1821. [1] … from 75,000 to 303,000, whilst Glasgow grew from a town of 13,000 to a city of 104,000. [2] By 1870, urban centres of over 10,000 had a … to have continued, even after the children boarded trains at the port city into which they had arrived. Jack Dove confirmed that ‘you didn’t …
  • Michele e Concetta Fusillo
    … September 23, 1951 - Concetta; June 12, 1954 - Michele Age on Arrival: 26 - Concetta; 23 - Michele Born in the south eastern community of Carpino, Foggia, Concetta Faiella immigrated … working on construction sites, digging and constructing tunnels until his brother's death, age 23, at the Hogg's Hollow Disaster in Toronto …
  • Jozwiak, Yarosh,
    … Mary Jozwiak, born Juzwiak, on December 24, 1907, in the village of Zboriw, Zarudka, Austria, to Jacobus Juzwiak, who was … Road in Welland Ontario. John Yarosh, born Joannes Jarosz on January 26, 1905 in the village of Dubowce, Tarnopol, Austria, to Terentius … - Hnat, Nikola, and third-unknown. Paranka died at an early age. His father remarried Sadie (also known as Hsenka or Ksenia) Mohylska. …
  • Kucha Family
    … Sharon Bonnallie Hungarian Immigrants Minnedosa (Steven) July 23, 1926 Berlin III (Margaret) February 11, 1934 Age: 5 years 8 mos for Steven F 8 years for Margaret S (left Hungary on her birthday) January 26, 1934 Steven F. Kucha, Jr. (Istvan Kucsa, Jr.) left from his homeland of Fot, Hungary, with his mother (Mary), and sailed from …
  • Ron Baylis
    … Type: Immigrant Port of Entry: Halifax, Pier 21 Date of Arrival: March 26, 1964 I arrived at pier21 on March 26 1964 and took the train to Toronto where I was met by my aunt who …