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… Five of us, who were making the voyage, set out by foot and bicycle from Trevignano to the … or expected. It was exciting despite the pain of having just left my family and friends behind. What an adventure! There was always a lot … I loved to do! Luckily I was not sea sick like many others around me. It was a great trip that lasted eight days. When we arrived at Pier …
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… Alumni Type: War Bride Country of Origin: England Ship Name: Letitia Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: April 1946 I left my home with my 14-month-old baby Shirley Ann. We were mustered in an …
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… My mother and father, Lawrence J. Hebert, met 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, … George Chudley, in Broughton, Lincolnshire, until he died on June 7th, 1947 of a stroke. Then she came to Canada. She was met at Pier 21 …
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… Manchester, England and immigrated to Canada arriving in Quebec City May 27, 1912 on the Tunisian. He died in Vancouver, BC December 15, … there was a smallpox outbreak on the ship. This led to a three week (May 11-June1) quarantine off the coast at Grosse Isle, near Quebec. As … his mother but until his father received wages the family could not come to Canada. His mother Louisa Mildred and siblings George William …
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… are four small episodes tied together with the arrival at pier 21 on May 28, 1951. To work for a U.N. organization, a displaced person, i.e. … class officer" had to be a citizen of a western country, usually an American, a Canadian or a Brit. They all spoke English, some French. … a wife and child asked me in Germany, if I would bring to Canada under my name one of his trunks. I agreed. After we disembarked and entered …
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… good old days in 1925 in the Minerva district near Gimli. When the Icelanders immigrated to Canada they were promised that this would be New … no refrigeration. It wasn’t until the railroad came in, that the dairy companies came out and offered producers the opportunity to ship whole … it made it virtually impossible to make progress until after the second world war. At that time, I was very fortunate, I had made it to …
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… as Persia in the history. Iran is a multinational and diverse country consist of different “nations” like Fars’, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, … anywhere having different nations around you speaking their own mother language, respecting their ethnic culture and traditions and at the same time considering themselves as a member of bigger nation, which is called …
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… Lc/Cpl Hubbard was born in Cassilis, New Brunswick on May 11, 1920, the son of William A. Hubbard and May M. Fisher Hubbard of Long Reach, New Brunswick. He married Marjory …
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… born in Carpineto, Romano Italy on January 1, 1952. He left Naples on May 21, 1952 at the age of four months with his father Florimondo and … Halifax on the Conte Biancamano. He arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax on May 31, 1952. Riccardo Cacciotti lives in Sudbury, Ontario. …
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… As an eighteen-year-old army private, I arrived at the C.N.R. Station in Halifax, from Camp Borden, Ontario early one morning in October 1943. I was proud to join the military personnel aboard that train who marched from the … officers and men. We left Liverpool on a converted ore carrier on the 12th. The ship had mechanical trouble this side of Ireland and had to …