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… June when I arrived at the Moncton Airport. It was enough for me to be confused. It was too cold. For my life time it should be hot in June, but it wasn’t. Wherever I went after landing, I experienced a lot of different things. Sometimes they looked … different from those of Korea. And getting a job was hard as a newcomer as well. Everything I felt in Canada for the first month made me …
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… The following was quoted from a speech written by Don Whitfield (Marie’s husband) on the occasion of Marie’s 80th birthday: “I remember the first time we met in the summer of 1943. It was at my regimental dance and Marie shouldn’t have been there because her and …
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… of a family full of love, faith and hope. But unlike most immigrants, my family had not left to find the land of plenty. Rather, they had … left to find a world where their love would be allowed to flourish. My mother Gabriela was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner. Through …
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… the Italian Liner Saturnia. I immigrated to Canada together with my Mother Rosa and my brother Giovanni, to join my father Michele in Ottawa who landed at Pier 21 exactly one year … and everything from the food to the landscape was very strange to me; very different than southern Italy. The train we boarded was old …
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… from Liverpool to Halifax in the ship's hospital with pneumonia, while my two daughters were looked after by the wonderful staff. Arriving in Ottawa as a war bride, it didn't take long for me to realise that I had married an alcoholic. However, with no … I remarried and my husband and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary on January 4, 2003. I love this country dearly (don't …
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… I am Prairie born, Prairie bred, thanks to my grandparents, Charles and Emily Haigh, for immigrating to Canada. … admiration for my grandfather, whom I never knew. I have always said, "the prairies separate men from boys". How tall he stands in my eyes! … along with their children, Philip, Alice, Sydney and George William (my Dad) departed from Liverpool September 6, 1913 aboard the Teutonic …
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… I am Prairie born, Prairie bred, thanks to my grandparents, Charles and Emily Haigh, for immigrating to Canada. … admiration for my grandfather, whom I never knew. I have always said, "the prairies separate men from boys". How tall he stands in my eyes! … along with their children, Philip, Alice, Sydney and George William (my Dad) departed from Liverpool September 6, 1913 aboard the Teutonic …
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… 14, 1948 Author: Jennie Humbert, daughter Stanislaw Maciejewski, my father was born on a farm close to Poznan, Poland in a village called Komorowo. He was one of six children of Jan Maciejewski and Victoria Tomczak. Stan fought with the Polish army … brought to the Poznan area of Poland in order to occupy the land. On May 12, 1945, the war over, displaced persons from the war were brought …
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… The trip from Rotterdam took seven days and I arrived in Halifax full of hope and the expectation of travelling to Alberta to meet my sponsor family and begin a new life in Canada. Holland was war-torn …
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… 1933-1940. Started four years training as butter and cheese maker – May 1940. Served in the Danish Army 1947-1948 as peacekeeper in Germany … to Canada 1951: left Plymouth May 19, 1951, arrived at Pier 21 on May 26, on the S.S. Europe . By train to Vancouver, BC, was taken to …