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  • Hendrikus van Kesteren
    … Hendrikus passed away from cancer on September 4, 2005 in his home city of Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. …
  • Antonio Paolo Cappuccitti
    … on Arrival: 3 Arrived in Canada as a 3 year old. Travelled with my mother Antonia di Poce Cappuccitti and my older sister Santina Tersigni, she was 9 at … our arrival at Union Station. My parents were not young when they set out on this adventure. In 1952 my father was 52 years old and my …
  • What does PEACE look like to you?
    … Exhibition is the Museum’s summer 2014 exhibit, brought to us by the Canadian War Museum. It is a glowing success, attracting about 6,000 … people have contributed so far, and the number continues to grow every day. The folks at the Canadian War Museum really knew what they were doing when they designed …
  • Recommended Resources - Netherlands
    … and the Growth of the Dutch Community. The Postwar Wave and Its Predecessors.” (unpublished manuscript). Curtis, Herb. The Scholten Story … Netherlandish Origin In the Creation of a Homogenous Population in the City of London” MA Thesis. University of Western Ontario. 1964. … Recommended Resources - Netherlands …
  • Olive Helen Briggs Ripley
    … to be everywhere and after growing up on the outskirts of a large city, it truly was a culture shock to arrive in rural Canada. After the … 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 …
  • 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 … succeed in Canada. How challenging it was to find accommodation in a city where he knew nobody, couldn't translate the newspaper, couldn't …
  • Antonio Giovannina e Michele
    … Like most immigrants that migrated from war-torn Europe after W.W. II, my father Antonio was seeking a new & better life for his family. There was no future for him in economically depressed Italy. My dad left the city of Cosenza in the region of Calabria early in 1950, a year after … Antonio Giovannina e Michele …
  • Private Gordon B. Allen
    … New Brunswick, enrolled for wartime military service in March 1941 at the age of sixteen years and one month. He served for four and one-half … Clyde to Greenock where they debarked. They later traveled by train to south England where they were housed in old World War I military …
  • Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni
    … the Alessandroni Family had landed at Pier 21, Halifax. There they set foot to a new adventure, a new chapter of a family full of love, …
  • The Story About Immigration by Mark
    … Canada had many different cultures, we could live freely and a less competitive life without pressure. I decided to go to Canada with my … my own business quickly to earn much money in Canada. Hoping summer is coming soon, and then I can have a fine beginning. Return to Moncton …

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