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  • Ilmar ja Miralda Rakfeldt
    … Country of Origin: Sweden Ship Name: Aquitania Date of Arrival: November 22, 1949 Our … Jaak Rakfeldt began on November 14, 1949 from Stockholm to Goteborg, Sweden from there to London, England where we arrived on November 14, … from Southampton November 15, 1949 on board the Aquitania to Halifax, Nova Scotia arriving there on November 22, 1949. I think Immigration …
  • Philippe and Barbara Grignon
    … me to write and to her Osmondo whose gift pen I used to write the original draft. My name is Philippe Paul Grignon. I was born on January 20, … W.A.G. badge (Wireless operator and Air gunner.) I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in March, 1942. When we set sail for Britain there were still snow patches and a tired, …
  • An Exotic and Far Away Place - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    … Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 2:31 Transcript Yella Zahirovich (YZ): We know … was a man who immigrate to Canada in ’60s, and then he would come and we would all go around him to touch and to see what kind of man is that to go to that far away place? I had idea where I was coming, though in my mind it was exotic place. YZ: So, we, I think you …
  • Empress of Ireland -The Dining Experience
    … china, glassware, flatware, and what I like to ask visitors when they come to do the activity with me is where does it all go? Which piece is … started with third class. Start at the bottom of the ship and work my way up. So third class is going to be very no frills. We’ll have a main plate, we may have a soup bowl depending on what is …
  • Frederick Stubbs
    … Australia and New Zealand. Various government sponsored schemes were offered for farm work in Canada. My father agreed to let my brother, Sidney, and me come to Canada with the hope that after a few years we would be able to …
  • Vittorio and Antonia Ciampini
    … On November 2, 1954, we arrived at Halifax Pier 21. I was four years old so I don't remember … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother … Vittorio and Antonia Ciampini …
  • Alonzi Beniamino, Liberata e Family
    … I was born in a small city of Sora (Province) Frosinone, Italy in 1940. I have one brother and two sisters. My parents were the most honest, lovable and hard working people ever. It was … Alonzi Beniamino, Liberata e Family …
  • Historical Thinking (1) : Practicing History in the Museum
    … by Steven Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) In summer 2012, we offered an “historian’s tour” of our temporary exhibition, Shaping … Historical Thinking (1) : Practicing History in the Museum …
  • Bernardus G. Nolte
    … on the boat lost a few pounds to seasickness, etc. The custom agents were friendly and very helpful to speed up the processing of the new … our final destination. The train would stop at some stations on the way for a period of 1-2 hours to enable passengers to stretch and buy …
  • Able Seaman Alex Chelekower
    … I was born in November 1918 in Berlin, East Germany, to a Jewish family of … of this, she sent me away to Gotha, Germany, to a Jewish family who were strangers to me, when I was 8 years old. She wanted me to have the … Able Seaman Alex Chelekower …

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