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… Introduction: Left Hanover, Germany on the 12th of March 1948. Travelled by train through Germany and Holland. … Took a train to London, then took bus to Southampton and left on the 17th of March. We boarded the ship, Aquitania, for Canada. Arrived at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on March 22, 1948. (This day is special for me for two reasons: freedom day in Canada and, my …
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… church in Gartocharn, near Loch Lomond. Shortly afterwards, on August 19th, 1942, Chub was sent into action at Dieppe and captured. He spent … how much Becky's letters meant to his spirits. Chub was liberated on May 2nd, 1945 and was repatriated to Canada in July, where he was … throughout his life as a result of his wartime experience. Becky said goodbye to Scotland later that Fall, and arrived at Pier 21 on …
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… every night. Penge was bombed more than any other area in England. I remember when the sirens went off, we all went to the Anderson Shelters … worked as a conductor on the buses during the war. I was introduced to my Canadian husband-to-be (William James Sherwood R.C.A. C100060) by my … to go home. We wrote to each other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. …
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… and my class mate started laughing at me. I felt so disrespected, despised and stupid. I didn’t know why they were judging me. They … me a job. Three months later, I was in the restaurant working when the commandant and two other men came to take me away. I asked them in … of them answered, we were told you are a soldier. They thought all people from south kivu in the areas of Mulenge in Congo were criminals. I …
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… England to escape detection by the German air force. They met by chance in High Wycombe and quickly fell in love. Not long after, on December 29th of 1945, the two were wed at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church in … ended in early 1946 he returned home to the Ottawa Valley, and on June 11th of that year Nancy, now six months pregnant, stepped aboard the …
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… know what it is. Who’s going to be there to pick you up, like no idea. Or if somebody going to pick you up. (laughs) So, yeah. IN: I mean … that, so this is going to be our new home. But have no idea what’s to come and where are we going. So those things we don’t know. So we—And then we spend two days in Edmonton and then we flew to Saskatoon. IN: Right, Right. Sorry, to go back to the flight …
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… After completing High School and not able to find steady employment in Scotland, my parents advised me to emigrate to Canada. I gave the matter much thought and tried to persuade my best friend to come with me. His parents would not agree to let him go, so it was off …
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… February 1953 - Groote Beer We were married on February 5, 1953 and on the 20th we went to Rotterdam and boarded the Groote Beer to go to Canada … and they where getting low. When the ship got close to Halifax someone said they could see land and everyone went on deck, we were not sick … Mary and Leonard Vermey …
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… Flight Lieutenant Orland Ross Down (1922-2009) The late Orland Ross Down passed through Pier 21 four times between 1941 and 1945. He was an eighteen year old young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from …
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… Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large family. The prospect of immigrating to a new county proved to be both exciting … Hague for check ups and shots. Our last week in Holland was spent at my parent's house with all the kids sleeping on the floor. On the …