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… after WWII who was from Strathmore,Quebec. Still married to this day 56 years later, with nine(9) grown children and several grand … bunk most of the trip and ate crackers galore. She thinks it took 7 days. She had never been away from home and did not realize how far … for awhile and then took up residents in a vet home for 30 years in Pointe Claire, Quebec and now reside in Ottawa, ON. By Beverly Decle …
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… after they settled in Canada in June of 1950. “Soon after Labour Day, school started for John and Roger,” Jennifer wrote. “It was very …
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… The family was sponsored by Dan Blender, a gardener in Craven, Saskatchewan. The trip to … train took several says- arriving on July 1, 1952. It had rained for days in the Regina area and the roads were covered to a slimy soft …
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Jean Bowman Courchaine …
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… idea and our father very quickly embraced the idea completely to the point where he talked of little else. Mom and dad had an eventful life … taken from school to start work at an early age. Mom went to work as a domestic in an accountant's home and dad as a labourer for a … We had to reply by 5 pm whether we would accept. The ship was due to set sail the following Saturday 13 April. I went to dad's place …
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… they’re important because John Langley was an Irish immigrant. He’d come to Canada just the year before. The ship Empress of Ireland … and we get this kind of life-sized sense of the fateful voyage that day in 1914. Return to our Empress of Ireland video gallery. → …
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… when she and Patrick were put into isolation with others. “We were a day and a half out to sea when a little girl got meningitis,” wrote … we made it work.” If the war brides as a group had a catch phrase I can’t think of anything better than “making it work”. “When we arrived … after a long week in quarantine they boarded the train and their new Canadian lives began. “We left the hospital and boarded the train to …
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… that I studied at night. The owner of the books studied them in the daytime. I created my own grammar book and learned words, which I felt, … had no opportunity to attend school and study English since she had a daytime job and took care of all the household work as well. She … We now enjoy our retirement and look back with nostalgia to that day when we first saw Pier 21 and Canada, the land of promise for so …