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… the trip was being so seasick, I never left the room. Needless to say my mother and father must have had their hands full with eight children and my mother expecting the ninth. I remember arriving at Pier 21 and …
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… December 2023 to December 2025 Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers has created an artistic intervention, currently on display … a conversation about decolonization and reconciliation.” Tracey-Mae Chambers’ intervention is on display in the Canadian Immigration …
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… I was baptised Lutheran immediately. Since Bremerhaven was bombed continuously and our survival was questionable, my grandmother invited … in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … to Bremerhaven. It ‘s a port city. There is a 1 km long pier where 3 large ships could be docked including American troop ships and …
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… My maternal grandfather, Charles Midgley was born in York, England in 1882. By age 20 he had become the head gardener for a big estate. At the same time his desire … fields, while Margaret learned how to housekeep under very difficult conditions, compared to what she had been used to in a lovely English …
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… with the States, but when he asked about our family, he said he didn’t want little kids on his farm. Soon there was another letter from … two girls. Opa and Oma Lopers and Oma and Opa Steenbergen were able to come along on the bus to Rotterdam to send us off. When we got to the … but they got on. We went in a big, old boat called the Volendam on 16 May 1950, and travelled for 10 days. There were not just Dutch people …
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… I left Canada as Staff Sergeant, and two and a half years later came back to Pier 21 as a Private. Quite a slacker, you'd think! So, there's a story. Why in the world would any young woman of 22 join the army, especially in the first years of World War II? I did! … magazines and brochures; and, as a photographer pointed out to me, "Not because you are that good looking, but because you are here." …
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… In speaking with my mother Norina, I asked her what she could remember about coming to Canada 59 years earlier. She stated that my father Ennio Bonifacio Fornasiero had sailed to Canada a year …
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… I was placed on the boat in England by stretcher. On the way home I asked the nurse for crutches and learned to use the crutches on the boat during my trip home. On arrival, I walked off on crutches with my own …
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… My Mother, Jeannie Lynn Rees, born Jeannie Lynn Thomson, was a … behind until she could be booked passage on a "War Brides' Ship". In May of 1946, she left her family behind, in Glasgow, to go to … years old, my mother, Jeannie Lynn Rees, was the youngest war bride to come to Canada. By having her name inscribed on the Wall of Service I …
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… Murray Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry Born: Truro, NS, May 2, 1923 Died: Calgary, AB, March 14, 1979 aged 55 years Son of … his regiment in July 1943 and there gave up his Corporal's stripes to join the PPCLI with whom he arrived in Italy on Christmas Eve. He was … her standing by the train, Smiling through tears of grief and pain; My khaki collar showed the trace Of tears from that beloved face. I …