-
… & Clasp, Defence Medal, France & Germany Star In 1941 Don enlisted in the Royal Canadian Signal Core in Toronto. While in England, he was … in the face of fanatical enemy opposition. On the night ½ May 1945 “A” Company made a night attack to cross the railway line south of Bad Zwischenahn. Sergeant Whitfield and ten other ranks formed …
-
… be a “look and read” type of museum. In the Pier 21 exhibition and Canadian Immigration Hall, there are places for people to touch, sit, smell, put stuff together, and take stuff apart. Visitors can pack a suitcase, decorate a suitcase, add a patch to a virtual …
-
… coming to Pier 21, but there is something universal I hope all visitors bring: questions. It might seem like a trivial thing, dear … the scope of what we talk about here at the Museum. The history of Canadian immigration is a vast and immensely complicated thing. It’s a … their questions. If visitors are asking about the same item or subject day in day out, there’s clearly an interest. That means there’s a …
-
… coloured maples, yellow birches, greens and oranges. I thought I had come to a very special place - a magic land. I remember thinking life would be good in such a land. Life has been good to all of us here. Akky Mansikka …
-
… Sisukas Suomalainen The Finnish word "Sisu" is frequently used to describe the Finnish … an island off shore from Helsinki. There several months later he would die. Pa remembered how his sister and mother cried when they found out …
-
… The Early Years Leonard Palmer was born on September 19, 1913 in … down the Mersey River, stopped at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland the next day and arrived in Halifax on April 27, 1929.” [1] Leonard was … to a hotel for dinner and a place to stay for the night. The next day, his boss came along with a horse and wagon and took Leonard out to …
-
… to do well at school, to have nice activities. It was—it was a good place to grow up. Now, by the later years of high school, some of … immersion in Vietnam, and the sense that the United States wasn’t the good guy. And what did that mean for all of—the whole belief system … with, and that was part of making my life so comfortable, up to that point. Oral History 14.02.27PS with Peter Seixas Canadian Museum of …
-
… In the morning we wake together. Then me with my brother and sister come to Needs Centre. Happy with nice teachers in Needs Centre. That’s …
-
… John Prokopowich was born in Skala, Borscziw, Ukraine in 1865. He married Maria Beyko in 1893. Maria was the daughter of Nick and … Skala. John and Maria heard that Canada was accepting and promising a good future for immigrants. In 1899, John, Maria, their two children …
-
… Evelyn May (Blackburn) DeLorey Daughter of Henry and Jane (Cullen) Blackburn Born March 15, 1923 in Kent, England … a room with other War Brides that were to be sent to Canada. The next day, she and her children took the train to Grenack, Scotland. Sailed … George and Evelyn DeLorey …