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… mother a typed out blessing and farewell letter. My mother cherished this letter and referred to it from time to time over the years. This letter was written in Italian and was placed at the altar and read … different places they will meet again. This special letter had touched all that heard/read it that I thought it would be nice to have it …
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… trip to Saskatoon where she was meeting with her husband and meeting all of his family. Lucy was very nervous about it all. The next fifty-eight years of Lucy's life were spent with Ed, …
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… with my father winter fishing. We fished sauger. And this sauger in Icelandic was called svartenpick meaning, black pickerel. One day, I said … but when the curling match was over, I was happy to see that dad had come home. He figured that running back was a little much. In open water, we fished the nets for 5 days and had to pull them up, bluestone them on Friday night, spread them up on reels, and dry them, to …
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… Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t … image it, at that time. But what is like being in a mother that times, you know, how the people will go through it in this kind of … was my mom was grabbing my hands, and we, and told me to run. And later of the day, a few days, people—we were hiding in the jungle, so, …
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… and Petrun Petursdottir and Kristjan Kristjansson, born in Iceland and coming to Canada… my parents were Gudrun Gudlog Kristjansson … a difficult one to pronounce. There were only 5 other Icelandic families in the area. My dad's name was Bjarni and my mom was Mrs. Bjarni, I … What's in a Name? by Vi …
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… January 10 to April 14, 2024 Photographers Darren Ell and Roger LeMoyne weave together images of recent migrations on … documentation of the dramatic events driving global migration. Darren Ell and Roger LeMoyne have spent many years covering the front lines of …
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… Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · Students for Change Time 1:51 Transcript … expensive. And I was not always able to pay? pay, because I had no income, no resources and all that. I later incorporated politics into it. …
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… far apart to talk. So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … and I feel a little bit happy. The horn blasts from the ship. Everything is shaking. Mamma says I have to put … Cristoforo Colombo by Bruno …
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… Ship Name: Seven Seas Date of Arrival: March 11, 1957 I was born on the 15 of December 1937 in Schwenningen/Neckar in southern Germany, the … underage and therefore afraid to tell my Mom. My girl friend and I did all the paperwork required to present to the Canadian Consulate in … Winnipeg a sum of $255. A lot of money back then. My poor husband from his meager wages ended up paying for me. I often think, he bought me …
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… Our family left Rotterdam aboard the S.S. Waterman on April 15, 1952. I was eight years old and the only thing I recall about the trip was being so seasick, I never left the room. … It was difficult to find a landlord in Chatham willing to rent his house to a family with eight children so my Dad told the landlord …