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… lived in those hills. If you ever caught one, your every wish would come true.” Kay was reluctant to leave her family and beloved Ireland … I had lost Nanny forever. My father was never the same after Nanny died. It seemed he was never again the happy fun loving father of my … had kept her sons in line, probably without even knowing it. Nanny had died at her daughter, Pauline’s, in Houlton, Maine, on February 10, …
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… the ship and then I proceeded. Now I had built models before but they were usually from a kit. This was my first scratch-built 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 twelve month period to get her the way she is right now. I was using pictures of the interior and the …
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… mother, father, brother and I, arrived in Halifax in Feb. 16, 1957. We sailed on the MV Britannic from Liverpool, having arrived there from a refugee camp in Austria. We had escaped from Hungary in Dec. 1956, following the unsuccessful …
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… 21. And so that means that I give tours, in English and French, and we also do all kinds of other little duties. So we sell the tickets and we, give people maps and let them know what’s going on in the museum. As for doing the art, that’s something that I always like to do on my own. I decided to study history, but keep art for …
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… March of 1963. “I spoke to my dad and he thinks it was around 3 to 4 weeks that we were there,” Mike recalled. “The brick walls and the bars on the … Mike’s sister Carrie made a full recovery and they were soon on their way to Toronto. What rings the most true for me in Mike’s recollection …
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… my brother and I attended a Christmas party which was held at Pier 21. We are both in the photo of the children at the Christmas party. We are … grandfather was born 27 March, 1898 in Ferguson’s Cove, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia. His parents were William and Catherine (Munro) Conway. He … Two of his brothers, William and James also saw active duty in WWI. After the war my grandfather returned to Halifax and in 1921 he …
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… by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:31 Transcript: We’re now preparing to put artifacts in a case from the wheelhouse of … that were there that night where fatal decisions were made about which way Empress of Ireland was going to go in the fog, those fatal …
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… three older brothers around June, 1953, at the age of 3. My Dad & Mum were 39 years old. My oldest brother John was 9, Joe 7, and Gerard 6. We sailed out of Rotterdam to Halifax in the reconditioned navy vessel …
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… Theodore, brought me to Lethbridge, Alberta. Having no relatives here we stayed with his friends until we found somewhere to live. I was made most welcome with them and I …
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… I remember…the time my second brother arrived…I had scarlet fever. I can remember a crib in the kitchen and my brother was in it…our whole … some of her more notorious childhood escapades in the neighbourhood. “We had one little house down the street that had a hedge all around it, …