• Bruce Eldon Myron Evans Ray
    … As an eighteen-year-old army private, I arrived at the C.N.R. Station in Halifax, from Camp Borden, Ontario early one … officers and men. We left Liverpool on a converted ore carrier on the 12th. The ship had mechanical trouble this side of Ireland and had to return to Greenock, Scotland for repairs. … Bruce Eldon Myron Evans Ray …
  • Advantages for Immigrants in Canada with Happy Ending by Henry
    … Time 0:05:05 Transcript In 1958, I left Hong Kong for London, England, to study a nursing program. The … nursing skills in world. The nurse can work can work in most of the Commonwealth countries. Having graduated as a registered nurse, and … removed in a hospital. The nurses looked after me very well, with tender loving care. It influenced me to take nursing as my career in the …
  • Tony, Martha Vanderheyden Family
    … JoAnne Potter nee Vanderheyden I was born May 21, 1940 in Beek & Donk, Holland. After WWII devastated our country, my parents made the decision to immigrate to Canada in 1948. There was …
  • Mario Pecile
    … Pecile was born in September of 1927, in Fagagna, a small town in the Friuli- Venezia-Giulia region, in northeast Italy. He is the second … the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare. In December he set out on the MS Vulcania for the 10-day trip from Genoa, Italy to Halifax, Canada, where he disembarked …
  • Hungarian Culture Trunk Photographs
    … Life in Hungary Coming to Canada Arrival in Canada Life in Canada …
  • Bruno Tomaino
    … I like many others, have neglected to express my sincere thanks for your welcome that you gave me with open arms. I do not expect you to remember me, a lonely 16 year old with black hair, skinny legs and brown eyes …
  • Crossing the Big Pond by Monika
    … I was born in Bremerhaven on January 23, 1941 to Karoline and Theo Muller, two doting parents. Everything was on fire, chaos everywhere. … in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 years, we …
  • Morris Josef Haugg
    … I am a Pier 21 Alumni and I am pleased to say also a current member. I have been reluctant to tell my Pier 21 story because I always thought it was so much less …
  • Anton, Zofia, Ted and Bill Warelis
    … and neck during the war. Zofia Warelis (nee Milcharek) was born on December 25, 1905 to Stephan and Mary Milcharek in Mlynow, Poland. … papers to Canada. When the applications were approved, Anton and Zofia left their homestead in Poland, as thousands had before them, to seek a … a train to Ethelbert, Manitoba. They settled in the small rural community of Ukraina. When they arrived they had no home to live in. …
  • Everina Pieternella Hoogerdyk
    … Families April 1, 1953 - Waterman Times were hard in Holland then and although Pete worked hard to make a … not going to uproot his family and that was that. About one year later my brother and his family came from Venezuela for a visit. He advised … who would employ Pete lived in Ontario. Our date for departure was set for March 24th, 1953 so we had about six weeks to get ready. In all …