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… Time 0:02:44 Transcript I planned my life to have a career in media communication and with my mind set I spent my life to achieve that … Hike to Self-Rediscovery by Ardie …
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… Emigrating To Canada September 1956 The photograph below was taken in front of our … Rein, Dini and Frits. Godfried Lindeijer was a bachelor in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. In Photo 2, the family must have responded to … Much later, after he passed away, I asked Mom why we moved to Canada. She told me it was either Canada or France, and she really didn't …
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… bureaus for information. When it gets to be pretty serious you start praying a lot about it. The time comes that you only pray that God will … which had 1400 passengers and 500 crewmembers, to go to our new land Canada. The Atlantic Ocean can be pretty rough going in the winter so … reached Halifax February 22, 1951 and went through customs that same day yet, we had to stay on board ship one more night. We walked around …
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… there wasn't the money or thought of celebrating birthdays in those days. He had a tough life when he was young and only went to the 3rd grade … he went to work abroad in France, Luxembourg and Germany. During the 1930's up to and including 1945, he was working abroad. He was working in Germany pre war in the mines and then after was relocated in a labour camp in …
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… family. Then we moved downtown where Dad set up a store. In the early 1940′s, six weeks before the war began we moved again. This time … fortunately also had emigration on her mind, although not to Canada. She wanted to answer an add from New Guinea, or work on cruise ships in … number each trip, you were on stand by so to speak. We had about 12 days notice to board ship. Only 12 days to complete the necessary …
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… excruciating pain. Another story told of him having to walk across a mountain to have a tooth extracted. He had scurvy and survived a bout … to avoid this rock......just hang on! You will go under water but will come out the other side of the rock. This must have taken huge faith … photos. When the war started a friend of Barbara's joined the WAAF. She came home with exciting stories of her new life. Barbara, being an …
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… it was sausages.” This statement located on a panel in the Museum’s (pre-2015) core exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food confiscation. Food can be a … and their families. These aspects may include education, material possessions, language, religious identity, music, dance and ethnic …
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… and that made us unacceptable. We were probably Communists; it was the 1950's after all. The U.S. was unacceptable to us, too, for they had … Germany was so that his children would be free from war, with no chance of Hans ever being drafted into the military. He was right, too. … Karlsruhe, about 200 km south of us, and sitting in a waiting room all day, in order to obtain the necessary stamps in our passports. In the …
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… They met during the war in Naples where he was in the police force and she worked in a factory. They married and moved back to my mother's … would send him back to Italy and not sponsor him any longer. The next day he went searching for a job on foot as he did not have enough money … children were too young to remember him. TIME STOOD STILL In my mountain town, time stood still in days of yore Til the outside world …
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… with officials and told us, his children, years later that the next day he would have been taken away to jail. In the middle of the night, … window but was not allowed contact. Years later my mother told me that she would bring milk to the hospital for me to drink. In East Germany … from Prislich rejoined our family. During those years in the early 1950's the economy in Germany was very slowly recovering from the war. …