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… My mother and I left Ireland to join my father who had worked on the … entire 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 …
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… Pier 21 and the Robinson Family Perhaps the connections between us and Pier 21 … d.o.b. 18.2.1922) First in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 4th Bttn. (T.A.) and after mobilization at the outbreak of war, was … life-boat drills. Not having very good sea legs, I did not utilize my bunk below, slept roughly on deck. The food was the secondary …
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… "But Why Would You Leave the Boston States?" This was a question I came to expect in the early … communities around St. Margaret’s Bay where I have lived for most of my life. In our tours of the Pier 21 section of the Canadian Museum of … 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 until …
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… Several War Brides set sail with their children from Southampton, England at the beginning of November … called the Lady Rodney and we were all traveling to Halifax, Canada to join our Canadian husbands whom we had met during World War II. The … train. As we disembarked, walking down the gang plank, I was carrying my five month old son, David. Immediately when I reached dry land, a …
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… My parents Leon and Mary Tymoschuk, and three of my older brothers, Max, Jako and Alexander, set sail from Rotterdam … In 1934 they sailed to Paraguay aboard the Neptunia. My brother John spent many years in Buenos Aires, where he married Maria, and in …
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… and June 20, 1935 he was a member of the Non Military Active Militia, 13th Field Company Corps of Canadian Engineers in Calgary. From June … a member of the Canadian Army Active RCE and embarked for Britain in May 1940 through Pier 21. In September Harry met Hilda Fisher , in … the Central Mediterranean and in North and West Europe. While with the 4th Company RCE, he was wounded in Sicily on July 22, 1943, as a result …
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… My father Harold Melville Rees, was a handsome, charming, funny Canadian in the RCAF. 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 …
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… of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: October 21, 1958 Age on Arrival: 25 My mother left Italy to marry the love of her life Romeo Macorig. Dad …
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… It may not come as a surprise for many that the head of the National Arts Centre … of music were less than ideal, it helped steer him down a path to become one of this country’s best known champion of the arts. In 1947, … that immigration has been one of the major ways in which Canada has become the kind of country it is in the early part of this century,” he …
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… Country of Origin: England Ship Name: Aquitania Port of Entry: Pier 21 Date of Arrival: March 16, 1947 Pier 21 - That's where I came home to in March 1947 I had married my husband, Bill in Aug. 1943. He was in the R.A.F. and had come to Canada to serve in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. …