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  • Rose Chudley Hebert
    … when the troops were being gathered in Lincolnshire in preparation for D-Day. My cousin, Joan Chudley, said there were men everywhere - sleeping in barns, beside roads and so on. She said on D-Day, early in the morning, the bombers took to the air. When each one …
  • The Lerin Region Macedonian Cultural Association of Canada • МАКЕДОНСКО ПРОСВЕТНО ЗДУЖЕНИЕ НА ЛЕРИНСКАТА ОКОЛИЈА ВО КАНАДА
    … of all Macedonians from the Lerin Region of Macedonia who have made Canada their home from the early 1900s to the present. En l'honneur de tous les Macédoniens de la région de Lerin de la …
  • Captain C.P.H.E. Huxford
    … Captain Huxford pictured on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford Captain Huxford on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford Captain Huxford on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … Life in Canada Time 4:29 Transcript: Madan Kumar Giri (MKG): We were sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. That’s what … 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 …
  • Starting Life in Canada: Cooking Nepalese Food in Charlottetown - Madan Kumar Giri
    … They provided us everything, immigration. Our sponsor group from our community from the church were helping us to take us to the different … just ate our Nepalese food. EB: Were you able to find all of the ingredients, or most of the ingredients that you were used to? MKG: Yes. Yeah, everything was there. We …
  • Rosa and Giuseppe Ritorto
    … said good-bye to our dear grandparents, aunt, uncle and little cousin with whom we lived in southern Italy. With us we had all of our belongings in 2 …
  • Daxa Popat
    … Life in Uganda - A Multifaceted Community Time 0:01:10 Transcript I speak English, Gujarati, Gujarati’s … and Hindi. I speak three languages. And I did know Swahili. But, coming here, not keeping in touch with Swahili, I’m not fluent with … make samosa, pakora, laddu, all the sweets, you know. And it was convenience store, Canadian grocery and Indian groceries. So, my dad said, …
  • Renate Hoffmann Rooke
    … In 1953, when you came to Canada, you had to have the following: 1. - … Round Trip International Pass 4. - Police documentation stating you were never in trouble 5. - International Certificate of Inoculation and …
  • Reinhard, Anna Lehmann
    … in Volhynia (which was a province of Poland at the time, now it is Western Ukraine), in 1936 of ethnic German parents. My ancestors … my great-grandparents came from. In 1945, before the Russian army came in, we were again moved west by horse and wagon and sometimes by train … Reinhard, Anna Lehmann …
  • Empress of Britain - Peter Duschinsky
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 6:33 Transcript But we used to walk around the … of the last that would get out of Hungary before the controls by the Communists were clamped down and they had managed to come to Canada. They, basically, they got the okay. That’s the only way …

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