• Margaret Felteau
    I spent the whole voyage 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 alternative but to …
  • Erzsebet Guti
    … my father attended to his papers. A man in a uniform came over and said something but I didn’t understand him. When he left he smiled and …
  • Marjorie Sears Abrams
    … the next week crossing Canada, watching some happy and some memorably sad drop-offs of war-brides and children. A pleasant rediscovery on …
  • Erkelens Jacobus Jaap
    … 32 years, works as a caretaker for a private hunting club on the QC side of the Ottawa River. Proud father of 5 children, 3 living in the …
  • De Francesco, Pompilio
    … and beautiful North America was. They had made some money working in Canada and the USA before they returned to Italy. In their mature age, … square kilometre around Lombardy and 500 around Naples, but Canada was said to have only 1 person per square kilometre. They told us that … Toronto, we stopped at beautiful Union Station. We saw Queen's Park, City Hall and the Bank of Canada Tower. We went to live in a flat on …
  • Pier 21 Club
    … new members. A famous Lebanese Poet, Gibran Khalil Gibran, once said, ‘I felt in my heart to give a little because I was given so …
  • Olga Mykolajchuk
    … old to travel. She was though everything Canadian. Her desire was to become the best Canadian she could be, dedicated to learning English and … She was extremely proud to get her Canadian citizenship and she always said those who choose to come to Canada must give Canada their undying gratitude and respect, …
  • Nicola and Mario Covelli Families
    … admired teacher - and his wife would be a native Nova Scotian. On my side: My grandparents and great grandparents came to Pier 21 from …
  • Concetta, Laura and Teresa DiPietro
    … do this to us, I thought, but it had to be done to join my father in Canada. He had been away since 1956. For 10 days this was our home. For … was a consolation. This priest devoted himself to the children. He said mass on the Epiphany (January 6) but where was my "befana" who had … to the seats in the train, it was a big mess of dough. I also bought a can of peaches but we had nothing with which to open it. I cried and …