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… helped me discover several countries, including my immigration to Canada. Chapter 3: Divorce. Too good to be true. After 12 years of marriage … about me being alone on the Trans-Canada Highway, Daphnée decided to accompany me in my adventure. I was thrilled because deep down I was … all my personal belongings and on August 9, 2010 at 8 a.m., in the company of Daphnée, I began the biggest challenge of my life: driving …
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… the nationalities of the passengers and the important news of the day. I was one of 1100 passengers that came to Canada on that …
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… Bringing Sugar, the dog, to Canada Time 0:01:20 Transcript But my husband stayed a month after we left … Sugar—no, the information that I got from my step-mom, “Oh, in Canada we have strict rules about animals.” “Oh,” I said, so we decided to ask for more information about Sugar—how we can bring Sugar to Canada. And I realized my step-mom didn’t like animals, because at that …
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… were expected to marry Icelanders. When my cousin arranged a blind date for a Christmas social and I found out he was Ukrainian. I gasped! … In some aspects our cultures seemed very different. Determined to overcome these issues we worked together to create a melded family. Language was the most worrisome. When we received company from Iceland, everyone spoke Icelandic except my husband. My …
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… It was 2:00 a.m. Our family was rudely awakened by two Russian soldiers armed with rifles and were told to pack a few things, and we would return in a few days. We were all loaded into box cars, hundreds of us and travelled by … My uncle was in the Soo since after WWI. He made the papers for us to come to Canada. We said our good-byes and sailed to Canada in the hopes …
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… village of the Molise Region. And then we decided to emigrate to Canada. My husband came few months earlier, so that he could prepare for … all over my face, because the security guard just looked at me, and stopped the escalator. I felt such a sense of relief when I finally saw … new baby, but my troubles were definitely not over. My inability to communicate made it all so difficult, and I was feeling lonely even …
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… Single Men and Women July 9, 1953 – Waterman My five day journey from Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the ship SS Waterman was … 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 … woman. No offsprings. Canada has been good to me. It gave me a chance, but I had to work hard for it. With the same amount of hard …
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… itself been a trial. Under Nazi occupation, my father, Herman, had become involved in Resistance activities, a risk which was finally … Resistance Cross in 1982. The journey across the Atlantic lasted eight days over rough spring seas. With the exception of Harmen all of the … Beer pull away from the dock, my mother cried. She had not chosen to come to Canada to be "put in jail." Five days later we were able to …
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… in most cases, the trip across the ocean was not a smooth one. At one point, traveling across the Bay of Bisque, the waves were so rough and …