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… church and I also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I …
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… children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
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… children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
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… for my mother and younger siblings. The conditions motivated me to set sail on the Saturnia for Canada, in search of “pane e lavoro” (bread and work). I arrived in … Tribunal because all along my passion was for worker’s rights. On the side, I was also the host of “Labour News” on Rogers Cable TV and also, …
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… children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
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… trip and to buy a house. It took us four hours, by car, to get to the city of Naples where we boarded the ship "Conte Biancamano". I will … Union Station. My father was waiting for us. He picked me up and said how much I had grown since he last saw me. September of that year …
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… on the Groote Beer for nine days. On May 7, 1956 we landed in Quebec City. We had a few hours to shop before we boarded the train to Toronto … while we asked a passerby if he knew where Dovercourt Road was and he said it was not too far. We walked from Union Station to Dovercourt …
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… Johan under his control over night. He made Johan an offer; either come home with him for the night or spend the night locked up in a room in the immigration shed. Johan didn't have any problem figuring out that going home with … borrow my mother's car, which meant we had room for four people, so we said yes. Johan had a wonderful time immersed in the social life of …
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… to try something to new, and heard that things were much better in Canada. He immigrated to Canada in March of 1927. My parents were … first night, when my mother stood outside and looked at the sky, and said "God, why did we ever leave Holland". In the months that followed, … 7th, 1944, we landed on the Beach at Normandy, the first battle being "City of Caen" in France. We travelled through Belgium, Holland, and …
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… Brown Service # F67753 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps June 1940 to July 1945 To my Mother, Diane in memory of our favorite man "Charlie … to get to the front and see action. On the evening of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day invasion. … war, at least not about the more disturbing details. On the lighter side, he did mention about one night when he and some of his buddies …