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… model. Everything on this model is built by hand. It didn’t come out of a box. It took me, approximately, about 800 hours over a … and some cargo. The mindset is – if you feel good about it, then sit down and if you only work on it for ten minutes, you’re still moving forward. As I said earlier, there’s times I worked on this for eight hours. There …
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… Ontario. It was good that I did not understand too much English, but I can remember him using the term "S.O.B." directed at me. So I was … turn off leaving us in the dark at night. On the outskirts of Quebec City, the train stopped to take on coal and water. We were allowed off … "Trona!" Finally I stuck my head out of the window and saw a sign that said, Toronto. The reason I came to Canada in 1953 – I just had my …
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… Photo courtesy of Joy Bullen. Joy Bullen didn’t start out as a music impresario . “My formal … made-up word,” she says, “How I've labelled myself is inconsequential compared to what I am doing.” “The events offer the musicians financial …
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… Kagerplassen. From an early age he had to contribute to the family income. He worked as a luggage boy, (photo 2) this meant that he had to … in 1st and my father always 2nd behind him. (photo 3) He was a very welcome figure at the athletics track in Leiden and he also had a nice … at that time. They both had to break off the courtship on each other's side. A couple of friends from the Bataven (the athletics association …
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… mostly learned from doing. As was common in Italy, soldiers from the south are sent to the north and vice versa to fulfill their mandatory … went to see plays, went dancing, took vacations together down south and even to Italy to visit Ariella’s family. In September of …
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… spirits. Chub was liberated on May 2nd, 1945 and was repatriated to Canada in July, where he was immediately hospitalized. He continued to … throughout his life as a result of his wartime experience. Becky said goodbye to Scotland later that Fall, and arrived at Pier 21 on … had children. She remembered the long, long train ride, through Quebec City and Montreal, and then across the vast sparseness of northern …
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… years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go … was boring as I was quite by myself with not many people I could speak to. I dreamed a lot about San Vittore, my friends, and soccer games in … Italian routine, from 6:30 to 7:00 it was our family time as we all sat in front of a beautiful cooked meal using as many Italian …
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… Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He … it was he who would judge. As we approached the restored immigration shed, we passed an old Canadian National rail car that had been used to … opened as a museum in 1999. "They've really cleaned it up," my uncle said. "The place was incredibly dark and dirty when I arrived." "It was …
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… years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go … was boring as I was quite by myself with not many people I could speak to. I dreamed a lot about San Vittore, my friends, soccer games in the … Italian routine, from 6:30 to 7:00 it was our family time as we all sat in front of a beautiful cooked meal using as many Italian …