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… 1947 Pier 21 - That's where I came home to in March 1947 I had married my husband, Bill in Aug. 1943. He was in the R.A.F. and had come to Canada to serve in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. … we were living in his hometown of Cardiff, Wales. We lived there for a year and a half, but after much discussion decided to return to Canada. …
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… After a tearful good-bye to friends and neighbors in our little hometown of Ens in the Netherlands, our family, consisting of Dad and Mom and four children, ranging in age from three to ten years old, on the morning of January 22,1952, piled into a rented car … sometime that morning. We were told that, because of a clerical error, my little brother Fred was missing from the passenger list and we would …
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… honor of the Lebanese who landed at Pier 21 We are the seeds of the tenacious plants, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart … are scattered. -G.K.Gibran En l'honneur des Libanais qui ont débarqué au Quai 21 Nous sommes les graines de la plante tenace. Dans notre …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Queen Frederica Port of Entry: Pier 21 Date of … lived with Zia Erma, Zio Rocco and their three daughters for two years. Soon after their arrival, Gaetano and Angela went out to find … Umbertinese …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin : Czechoslovakia In December of 1948, fifteen-year-old Magda Sinar and her mother Mary immigrated to Canada from the … her father George who was working in Montreal. Geography and World War II had meant that Magda had not seen her father for a decade. The …
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… Ausma Levalds was Canada's 50,000th displaced person welcomed into Canada after the Second World War, brought by the international … Organization. She came through Pier 21 in February 1949. Ausma was 8 years old when she came with her mother Karline Levalds and her sister … age of six. In 1909, three year old Karline was sent to reside, for a year, with her maternal grandparents, at Gruntos. In 1910, she was …
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… Ambassade de Suisse Embassy of Switzerland En l’honneur des milliers d’immigrants suisses qui ont débarqué au Pier 21 et ont trouvé au Canada une terre d’accueil qui leur a permis de commencer une nouvelle vie. In honour of the thousands of Swiss Immigrants …
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… other members of the church. When we stayed in the hotel in Quality Inn, everyday there used to be some members of the church—like, they … The whole financial part was done by CIC. Emily Burton (EB): So then you had an apartment? MKG: Yeah, we got an apartment. For eighteen days, we simply, I still …
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… My wife, Zolanda, and myself, along with my two children, Allessandro (Rick) and Laura arrived in Halifax. Rick was nine years old and Laura was a year and seven months. We arrived December … that had paid the full amount for their voyage. I am telling you all this because when we landed in Halifax the welcome was most …
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… The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada Comité Canadian du Centenaire du … perpétré par l'Empire Ottoman entre 1915 et 1923, sont arrivés au Canada grâce aux efforts de l'Armenian Relief Association et de l'Église Unie du … The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada • Comité Canadian du …