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… I would be able to return. Travelling in convoy from Liverpool there were fifteen hundred young brides like myself on their way to a new home and life in Canada. I was extremely seasick and did … suddenly aroused from my chair on deck by wild screams, 'Land! Land! We can see land!' Coming slowly into the Halifax harbour was sheer joy …
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… 21, Halifax Ship: USAT General J. H. McRae Country of origin: Germany We left Bayreuth in Bavaria in the back of a USA Army 2 1/2 truck for the long ride to Bremen, our departure point. I will never forget that as I got really motion sick. We were …
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… In the Canadian Immigration Hall, we have a great interactive element where we ask visitors to share with us their family traditions and customs. The point of this activity is to get people to think about where these traditions come from and the intangible culture that immigrants bring with them …
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… My Dad died in WWII. I got married on March 5th, 1955 to my beautiful bride Josephina. We decided to immigrate to Canada for a better life. On November 25th, …
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… We sometimes refer to this institution as a museum of stories. Stories … different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life in Canada . And although they are not part of our exhibitions, they are … refugees hidden under a tarpaulin until they reached the departure point. After another five days at sea, they landed at Christmas Island, …
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… We sometimes refer to this institution as a museum of stories. Stories … different places and time periods. They both ended with a new life in Canada . And although they are not part of our exhibitions, they are … refugees hidden under a tarpaulin until they reached the departure point. After another five days at sea, they landed at Christmas Island, …
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… We came from Oldemarkt, Holland, but sailed from Le Havre on February … family consisted of: Eisebius, age 48, Catharina, age 43. The children were: Nicolaas J. 19, Hendrikus 17, Anna Marie 16, Eisebius A. 14, … different quarters. Once in Halifax we took the train the rest of the way across Canada to our destination. It was cold with lots of snow …
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… On August 17 (I think) we left from Halifax on the S.S. Bayano (100 passengers) for Britain in … so the two days train trip was quite an adventure. We were put in the Nova Scotian and were not permitted to go out alone. There were twelve …
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… Life in Uganda - Community Involvement Time 0:01:48 Transcript My two sisters went to … became the councillor, and became the vice-chair of the finance committee, became the vice-chair of the education committee, ran some five schools under the municipal council, and …
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… shortly after the revolution. I was about 6 years old at that time. We spent about two years in several refugee camps in Yugoslavia and … it sailed out of Napoli harbour. The voyage was very rough most of the way and we were glad when we finally reached Halifax. The weather was …