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… later I was to discover we sailed across on the tail end of a hurricane. One of my first memories in landing in Halifax and leaving the … show up, friends of my mothers' from the ship drove us to Dundas. (I can only imagine the horror my mother must have felt that day). However it all turned out well with a happy reunion in Dundas and …
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… Philip as of 2001. The WALL OF HONOUR brick was purchased as a birthday present for Olive to commemorate her 78th birthday on July 18, 2001 by her family. Clockwise from top right - Olive in …
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… Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma (Van Der Laan) from Amsterdam, The Netherlands arrived at Pier 21 on July 12, 1954 aboard the Waterman with their daughter Gerda and son Jan. Geraldine (Gerda) married George Zwaagstra on July 27, …
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… Preservation is a way of keeping digital material alive so that they can be accessed long into the future, even as the technological tools … our catalogue to improve full-text searching ii . We have also been scanning some beautiful hand-written stories from the filing cabinets. … copy v , with a lower resolution JPEG as the access copy vi that you can view on the Image search page . This means we preserve the best …
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Ivan Szalai arrived at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 23rd, 1967 on the T.S.S. Olympia, which he boarded in Haifa, Israel. He was a single man, 29 years old with two suitcases and $200 in his pocket. Ivan spoke neither English nor French and knew nobody in his chosen new country. From …
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… Newcomers from cities across Canada created a two to five-minute video that shares their immigration … was added: digital stories. Working with facilitators from Community Story Strategies, we offered digital storytelling workshops across Canada. Newcomers from ten cities in six provinces and one territory …
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… for Montreal leaving Tiny and the two girls in Holland. Within ten days of arriving in Calgary, Arie had three job offers. He was … Following the immigration process, they boarded a train for a 3-4 day journey to Edmonton. Arie and Tiny Bor have lived in a variety of …
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… the Red Cross and other organizations) as far as Truro by car -- next day up through New Glasgow, Antigonish, and the ferry crossing at …
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… be proceeding on to New York City. During the voyage, after several days of sailing, we encountered a terrible hurricane, which caused it to arrive in Halifax one day later than scheduled. My father, a British Naval Officer from WWII, … away almost 20 years ago, my mother will celebrate her 80th birthday this month in Victoria, BC. In recognition of this special occasion …
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… change their lives, and the lives of their children, forever. This 10 day voyage began aboard the immigration ship Zuiderkruis on which they …