• My Heroes by Liliana
    … When we arrived my understanding of what was happening was very unclear, I was only 8. All I knew, I was coming to Canada and My father had told me he had a teddy Bear for me …
  • Philip Barry Chaytor Pepper
    … WW1. As he was just 17 years old his family thought it best for him to come to Canada until he could get a passage home. His family and a … he came back to Canada and studied law at Osgoode Hall in Toronto and set up his practice in Toronto where he worked for the next fifty … who had won this award twice during WW1. Barry and Marjorie sailed, by chance, on the Aquitania's final voyage on their honeymoon. They were …
  • Voy y vuelvo by Abel
    … has been one of the most difficult yet rewarding experiences in my whole life. The language barrier, my first winter, my financial situation … and a couple of years later we got engaged. I was now starting to become really hesitant to go back to Mexico … many things changed and my …
  • The Smell of War in the Air - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 3:12 Transcript: Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ) : So … arms already and sending the, uh, children and wives and older people outside the country as much as they could. That’s what I did with my …
  • Stefano Paoli
    … 1954 Age on Arrival: 16 My dad Stefano Paoli at the tender age of 16 left his small town of Vallelonga (CZ) in Calabria Italy to join my … and my uncle Vito Paoli who had already immigrated to Canada. He commenced his voyage in the company of his 17 year old friend Vincenzo …
  • Pietro e Anna Massari
    … day as they departed the Port of Naples. The boat named Homeland set off in the blue waters of the Gulf of Sorrento, in view of the … Capri. Waving goodbye to their homeland, and all they ever knew, they set off to the future, a land completely unknown. New language, new …
  • Albert Samuel Davis
    … from Britain in the late 19th and early 20th century. His story is a sad one, but typical of a time when family and child poverty and the …
  • Siegfried Mehlitz Sr.
    … My Journey started 7th July 1952 in West Berlin (US Sector). I left Berlin by Bus with approximately 50 to 60 other men … day. Everyone was happy the voyage was over and now reality finally set in and we all had to face the fact that we were in a new country … 21. The CNR train left that evening traveling along the Gaspe. Quebec City and Montreal, 40 0r 50 people, including me, got off the train at …
  • Private Carl Wallace Graham
    … War Medal 39-45 Born: September 8, 1925 Died: August 6, 2008 Enrolled in the army March 15, 1944 in Kingston, Ont., was a member of the … which resulted in him losing 50% of his small intestine. He also had a compound comminuated fracture of his right patella. April 28, 1945 he …
  • Viktor Tretjakewitsch and Family
    … The family under the trees Welly and a friend The family sat the table Four young girls Viktor Man in front of the Museum The family in 2000 …