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… mother, father, brother and I, arrived in Halifax in Feb. 16, 1957. We sailed on the MV Britannic from Liverpool, having arrived there from a refugee camp in Austria. We had escaped from Hungary in Dec. 1956, following the unsuccessful …
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… 21. And so that means that I give tours, in English and French, and we also do all kinds of other little duties. So we sell the tickets and we, give people maps and let them know what’s going on in the museum. As for doing the art, that’s something that I always like to do on my own. I decided to study history, but keep art for …
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… many European countries, football (soccer) is the most popular sport in Italy. Other sports such as rugby and volleyball are also enjoyed. In areas of Italy, where the Americans stayed during the Second World War, there is a strong, although … of Sicily is the flute. Opera is a well-known form of music to come out of Italy beginning as early as the 16 th century in Venice. …
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… March of 1963. “I spoke to my dad and he thinks it was around 3 to 4 weeks that we were there,” Mike recalled. “The brick walls and the bars on the … Mike’s sister Carrie made a full recovery and they were soon on their way to Toronto. What rings the most true for me in Mike’s recollection …
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… my brother and I attended a Christmas party which was held at Pier 21. We are both in the photo of the children at the Christmas party. We are … grandfather was born 27 March, 1898 in Ferguson’s Cove, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia. His parents were William and Catherine (Munro) Conway. He … Two of his brothers, William and James also saw active duty in WWI. After the war my grandfather returned to Halifax and in 1921 he …
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… by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:01:31 Transcript: We’re now preparing to put artifacts in a case from the wheelhouse of … that were there that night where fatal decisions were made about which way Empress of Ireland was going to go in the fog, those fatal …
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… three older brothers around June, 1953, at the age of 3. My Dad & Mum were 39 years old. My oldest brother John was 9, Joe 7, and Gerard 6. We sailed out of Rotterdam to Halifax in the reconditioned navy vessel …
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… Theodore, brought me to Lethbridge, Alberta. Having no relatives here we stayed with his friends until we found somewhere to live. I was made most welcome with them and I …
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… I remember…the time my second brother arrived…I had scarlet fever. I can remember a crib in the kitchen and my brother was in it…our whole … some of her more notorious childhood escapades in the neighbourhood. “We had one little house down the street that had a hedge all around it, …
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… to live, in the late seventies, led to her return to Canada in 1981. We came with the War Brides, but to join my father who had come as an immigrant. As an RAF aircrew trainee, he had been a member … to make a new start here. My father had to come to Canada in 1946 via Sweden and New York in Cargo Freighters because of the shortage of …