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  • Ingeborg Dietrich Ruohoniemi
    … Ship Name: Seven Seas Date of Arrival: March 11, 1957 I was born on the 15 of December 1937 in Schwenningen/Neckar in southern Germany, the … fell sea sick for two days, oh that was so terrible, I thought I would die. We finally arrived in Halifax late evening. As we approached the harbor all of us were happy to see the lights of the city. Because of it being so late, it was necessary for us to spend one …
  • Fleischer, Henny Karin Kaethe Eugen
    … My family and I arrived in Canada on the Neptunia at Pier 21 on March 14 1956. Being born in East Germany in … strolling along the streets enjoying my first experience in a western city, I was accosted by a British service policeman. He, finding me with only East German identity papers, decided to take …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … were created by Dr. Daniel Sims, Associate Professor, First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, working with a … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of … and regulations have had a huge impact on who is encouraged to come to this land and who is allowed to stay. This lens begins with the …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … were created by Dr. Daniel Sims, Associate Professor, First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, working with a … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of … and regulations have had a huge impact on who is encouraged to come to this land and who is allowed to stay. This lens begins with the …
  • Theresa McGee
    … Anne, Mary, Shamus and Gertrude. She married John Gray, a Canadian soldier, in October, 1945, in Fivemiletown. She left for Canada in July, … she met up with her husband, John. They started their life in a small community, Huntingford, in Oxford County. Over the next few years, they …
  • Entrenching Refugee Rights in Canada: The 1985 Singh Decision
    by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Up to the early 1980s, refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination system remained partial to the interests of the Canadian government rather than the claimant. The …
  • Herb
    … March 23, 1954 Age on Arrival: 32, 29, 5 My parents, Karl Friederich Herb, Anna Katharina (Annekathe) Theresia Sterzenbach Herb, and my … money to buy a house and a car, my father walked to and from work each day, a walk that took him a couple of hours each way, in the cold of … 1961 they purchased a car and their first home in a community on the south shore of Montreal. After moving into their new home, they decided …
  • Yolan Bencsik
    … Families 1956 We huddled each night around our radios giving us the news from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, … a cot in our kitchen. My sister Eva (Erdos) who was six years old and I, who was eight at the time, were told that we were going to visit our … itself was not unpleasant. I remember the green grass: it was a sunny day, and it all seemed very easy. The Red Cross was there to aid us as …
  • Ina van Teunenbroek
    … Her early school years were World War Two years with The Netherlands under German occupation. She graduated from the Gemeentelijk Lyceum in 1955. Temporary jobs in greenhouse and orchard provided her first experience in horticulture. In 1956 Ina enrolled in a … Ina met Freek Vrugtman, a graduate student from Canada. They married August 1964. On graduation (M.S.) Freek had competed for and won the …
  • Bargenda Family
    … in Berlin, Germany in 1927. My husband's name is Manfred Bargenda and he was born in 1924 in a small village outside of Berlin. Manfred … fortunate to find a job which meant that he would leave Berlin on Monday, return on Friday, repair the truck on Saturday, have a day off on …

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