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… As a former British child war evacuee who came to Canada under the auspices of the Children's Overseas Reception Board … seemed to be falling as close as the next street. Late the following day, along with 351 other CORB evacuees, we embarked in the Orient …
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… through Pier 21 in 1956. On October 21, 2000, 49 years to the very day that our first kinsfolk, Nicola Covelli, arrived at Pier 21 to … Mario Covelli, age 15, upon arrival, was put to work immediately. Today he is a proud Papa who came to this country with nothing and worked … of WWII; his return was a victory in itself: he participated in D-Day Normandy invasion; he was captured on D-Day Plus One; he saw …
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… Rotterdam on August 3rd at 17.00 hours. I wrote a diary of the nine days on this ship: Monday August 3rd. – After a long wait we finally … see any sun in the morning and in the afternoon it became foggy. I can still not get over the fact that I missed the family on shore in … to Toronto yet but we will get them in Halifax. What do I do all day? Sitting, walking, reading, standing, hanging around, being bored. …
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… when the troops were being gathered in Lincolnshire in preparation for D-Day. My cousin, Joan Chudley, said there were men everywhere - sleeping in barns, beside roads and so on. She said on D-Day, early in the morning, the bombers took to the air. When each one …
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… 21 England has a tradition that, on New Year's Eve, the man of the house goes outside with a piece of coal in his pocket, awaits the … After, what seemed, a lengthy discussion, my mother decided to flip a coin. Heads - Australia, Tails - Canada. It came up "tails". Canada it … saying goodbye to relatives and friends, etc. We spent our final day in Middlesbrough with our sister Iris and her family. Iris, the …
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… Charles Elliott Brown Service # F67753 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps June 1940 to July 1945 To my Mother, Diane … of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day invasion. Because of problems with their landing craft, he wasn't able land on the beach until the following day, June 7th, this may have been bad luck or divine intervention, I …
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… about how Christmas happened at my home, and my childhood memories. I come from Burundi, a small country in Central Africa. Christmas is the … most important time of year. Some people celebrate the end of year holidays with their family; others organize large gatherings, either for … whole family put money together to hire a chef who would come to the house of one of our family members to prepare the meal for everyone. …
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… and my two sisters. It was the first time we had something so new. The day we left was a difficult and emotional one. I adored my grandfather … what little belongings we had while we waited to take the train for a 2-day journey to Toronto, our new home. We started school one week … ended up eating so many of them to the point where I got sick. To this day, I still have an aversion to bananas! To add to this, my mother and …
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… of all Macedonians from the Lerin Region of Macedonia who have made Canada their home from the early 1900s to the present. En l'honneur de tous les Macédoniens de la région de Lerin de la Macédoine qui se sont établis au Canada …
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… Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …