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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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… My name is Santina Tersigni. I was born in Sora Provincia Frosinone, Italy, February … In 1963, I married another immigrant by the name of Gino Rybba and we had three Canadian children: Angela Gina 1964, Jamie Martin 1970, … Santina Tersigni …
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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 … Mary Fitzpatrick and Deirdre Anne …
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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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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 …
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… “Thank you for your sacrifice. We live in the best country in the world because you fought to keep it this way.” Denis Pilon Remember Their Sacrifice and Contribution Nearly …
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… settling in a new land and the kindness of strangers along the way, the Trunk reveals many personal accounts of newcomers arriving to … squishy white bread and first experiences of frigid Canadian winters. We invite you to participate in a uniquely historical and cultural …
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… 12, 1956 Age on Arrival: 9 My parents, brother and I immigrated from West Berlin, Germany We departed from Bremerhaven, Germany A collision at sea forced us to change ships in Southhampton, UK We boarded the FSS New York (Greek Line). Landed in Halifax, NS on June …
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… communication within the steamships that brought immigrants to Canada were voice tubes, or voice pipes, as this example seen display salvaged … to connect the Bridge (located here) to the Engine Room (located way over there). The voice tubes would have been used crucially during … Bridge to avoid a collision with the approaching coal ship Storstad. We can only imagine some of the words that passed through them in those …
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… (Story told by her younger sister, Mary K. (Bowes) Astephen) Jean was 28 years old when she came through Pier 21 in February 1946. Travelling by rail from Halifax to New Westminster, … in North Sydney, Cape Breton by air, staying for a month or so, on her way back to England to care for our Mother, who was still living in our …