• Bruno V. Sinosic
    … Refugees Organization ) camp at Bagnoli, near Naples, Italy, we had reached Bremerhaven, our final destination prior to our … destination was to be Port Arthur - Fort Williams. (presently, Thunder Bay) Egi and I would lose contact with one another for the next forty … Bruno V. Sinosic …
  • Herb
    … Country of Origin: Germany Ship Name: Arosa Kulm Port of Entry: Halifax Date of … and my father took on work as a welder. To save up enough money to buy a house and a car, my father walked to and from work each day, a walk that took him a couple of hours each way, in the cold of winter, and the scorching heat of summer. In 1961 …
  • Zbigniew and Stefania Sauter
    … and peaceful lives in our beloved country Poland. Overnight our dreams were shattered as my father, just 43 years old, was killed in the … Montréal, we started our peaceful new life, finally free and able to buy any food items we desired, as well as clothing, household …
  • Bridges by Tongda
    Time 0:02:58 Transcript I am a typical after 80s born Chinese boy. Because of the “one Child” policy, I was a “little emperor” in my family. I didn't need worry about anything, and I could have everything that I wanted. All I had to do was be good at my studies. But I wasn’t. And that changed …
  • Eric Wicherts
    … Research institute, was (am) married with one small daughter. However, long before the war, I read, as a child, a story about a boy who travelled through Canada on the massive Canadian trains. … through Ca nada on the massive Canadian trains. Imagine me, as a young boy, reading in bed this fascinating story while the wind and snow was …
  • Life in the Early Days at Vidivollum by Oli
    Time 0:04:39 Transcript I was born in a log house on the farm, back in the good old days in 1925 in the Minerva district near Gimli. When the Icelanders immigrated to Canada they were promised that this would be New Iceland. They could establish their own government, and keep their customs and …
  • Corporal Bill Pineo
    … HALIFAX HARBOUR, JUNE 1940 Minesweepers, accompanied by destroyers bristling with guns, were getting … through lack of communication, they assumed it their duty to take it in. Fortunately, it was only a few miles away and was returned to me … Corporal Bill Pineo …
  • Addolorata Salvatorelli-Di Falco
    … May 1954 Translated from original text written in Italian by Addolorata Salvatorelli-Di Falco My … 28, 1939. My husband and I lived in the same town and our families were longtime friends. We worked on one of the local farms. When we …
  • Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine
    … In the summer of 1940, as the blitz raged in England, Percy and Grace Blackman’s parents told them they were going to Canada. They were thrilled. They were born in Canada and … Party Dresses, New Friends and Other Advice for a Long Quarantine …
  • Refugee: a Hero or Zero? by Sharmarke
    Time 0:03:43 Transcript May 2012 was when I heard the news. I had to wrap up my last 10 years in 10 days. I was going moving again, but this time it was different. When I was 8 years old, my mother took me in the moonlight down to the harbour in Kismayo. She put me on a boat, knowing that many …