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… Williams, Mitchell Sherman "Will" "Bill" F39938 Sergeant, West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Army. Born on September 16, …
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… The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is delighted to welcome Katarina Marinic as Artist-in-Residence for 2019. Katarina’s work … project and exhibition. As Katarina explains, “past and present will come together in a continually moving display of images, representing … Museum’s fourth Artist-in-Residence from June until November 2019. The compensation for this six month program is $15,000. Quotes: “The family …
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… We welcome Education Groups including: school groups, cadets, Guides and … identity, history, citizenship and diversity. November to April Open: Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. May to October Open: Seven days a week, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Proudly supported by J & W Murphy …
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… when the troops were being gathered in Lincolnshire in preparation for D-Day. My cousin, Joan Chudley, said there were men everywhere - sleeping in barns, beside roads and so on. She said on D-Day, early in the morning, the bombers took to the air. When each one …
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… Date of Arrival: March 29, 1958 Age on Arrival: 18 I first decided to come to Canada when I was 17 years old. I wanted to come to Canada, because I wanted a better life and future. It was post WWII and my family wasn't doing great we lived on a farm and we weren't financially stable, that's why I …
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… sons Keith and Denis arrived in Canada at Pier 21 on April 4, 1950. We travelled on the Empress of France from Liverpool, England. We travelled to the South of Ireland as the sea to the North was too rough for their normal route at a speed of 26 knots. Ralph had a job waiting with George A. Chase in Sussex, N.B. …
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… "But Why Would You Leave the Boston States?" This was a question I came to … the Pier 21 section of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 we talk about the "pushes and pulls" of immigration—those factors that … and listening to the oral histories in the BMO Oral History Gallery, I’ve come across several people who said that they didn’t feel at home …
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… In 1963, I married another immigrant by the name of Gino Rybba and we had three Canadian children: Angela Gina 1964, Jamie Martin 1970, and Matthew Gino 1975. Now we are living in Mississauga and have been since 1974. My heart is …
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… crossing. She relied on kind passengers and crew to care for me. When we arrived at Pier 21, my mother was weak and had lost a lot of weight. She had no idea how long the train …
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June 28 to July 11, 2016 Winner of the 2016 Applied Arts Conceptual Illustration award, Canada’s Self Portrait is a participatory art project about who we are and what we stand for as Canadians. For three weeks during the summer of 2014, artist Aquil Virani and cofounder Rebecca Jones took a …