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… Australia and New Zealand. Various government sponsored schemes were offered for farm work in Canada. My father agreed to let my brother, Sidney, and me come to Canada with the hope that after a few years we would be able to …
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… On November 2, 1954, we arrived at Halifax Pier 21. I was four years old so I don't remember … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother …
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… Sometimes photography turned into animation. My role was to find a way to amplify the stories of others in a creative way, as a kind of mediating megaphone or a conductor of the choir. …
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… Sometimes photography turned into animation. My role was to find a way to amplify the stories of others in a creative way, as a kind of mediating megaphone or a conductor of the choir. …
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… Italy in 1940. I have one brother and two sisters. My parents were the most honest, lovable and hard working people ever. It was … oldest sister Pierina was born in 1939 and she was learning how to become a seamstress. My brother Joe was born in 1943 and he was learning …
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… Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) In summer 2012, we offered an “historian’s tour” of our temporary exhibition, Shaping … exhibit as background to discuss the historical process at our museum. We took that approach for a couple of reasons. First, we want to be as transparent as we can about our work: as a public …
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… of this, she sent me away to Gotha, Germany, to a Jewish family who were strangers to me, when I was 8 years old. She wanted me to have the … store in Halifax. A local Jewish businessman, Haim Jacobson, took a chance on me and helped me to get a loan from the bank and rented me … Able Seaman Alex Chelekower …
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… in public discourse and seems to be absent from public memory. We took on a very basic survey of the island to establish what features … on a historic site and wandering around may be fun, but it’s no way to run a railroad when it comes to locating specific features. So, …
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… He came on the Waterman. He began writing to Mary VanBysterveldt and went to Holland to marry her. They entered Canada through Pier 21 on … in Charlottetown and various places. We lived in Southport. Along the way we had 8 children: Sophia, Mary, Jozeph, Cornelius, Patricia, …
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… sisters (Helen and Maria). My father was Frank and my mother was Katie (nee Thiessen). Because of the second world war, my family was torn apart. My father and oldest brother Henry were both taken away. The rest of the family was moved to Poland when I … Thiessen in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada found me and sponsored me to come to Canada. I left Europe through Munich, Germany, Holland and …