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… Family story written by daughter Jane David Gordon Pettifer, his wife Sheila Doreen (Bradwell) and three children: … near Selwyn in Lakefield/Bridgenorth area of the Kawarthas. My parents had both served in the British Army during WWII and never regretted the … men would retrieve the rockets, and the "higher-ups" would see if they had done what was wanted. We were all thrilled one day when Wing …
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… Lucia Vasco nee.Vulpo and her son Giovanni (John) Vasco related a story about their family's voyage … and so she was sick for the entire journey. However, men and women had separate quarters and so her husband, Frederico could not help care … managed to get behind the life-boat and grab John. He did not say anything or warn John that he was there, because John would have …
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… Michael Vickers, “100 years of Immigration in Canada”, as in Canadian Social Trends , Statistics Canada: Catalogue No. 11-008, Autumn 2000. Di Cocco, Caroline, et al. One by One: History of the Italian Community in Sarnia – Lambton, 1870 – 1990 . Sarnia: Italo – Canadian … Summer . Multicultural Historic Society of Ontario: 1984. p. 127-130. Wallace, Robert. The Italian Campaign . Alexandria: Life Time …
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… RACCONTO DI VITA: CANDIDA FRANCA IACCINO (dedico questa mia storia ai miei … 42 anni assieme alla mia famiglia: mio marito Carmine, i miei figli Joe (Giosino), Gilda, Susie, mio genero Vito, l'altro genero, Rudy non … di tante lacrime e tristezza. La città di Halifax è bellissima la sua storia è commovente (tutti coloro che sono sbarcati da quel Porto …
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… we were obliged to return to the “Reich”. We ended up in the “Gau” of Mecklenburg, not far from the Elbe river, where I went to … away was the town of Luebtheen, with a population of 5000 people, with some fine buildings and many linden trees. The market square was in the … in a wooden shed, which figured somewhat in my life. On Sundays I had to accompany my grandmother to that faraway church. Her right hand …
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… My mother passed away at the age of 86. She loved her adopted country so much that a trial return to the UK to live, in the late seventies, … Canada in 1981. We came with the War Brides, but to join my father who had come as an immigrant. As an RAF aircrew trainee, he had been a …
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… Korean Art in Canada-My Life, My Art by Young Ju …
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… more specific. Germany was separate for 40 years, and I grew up in the socialism part. That part was the only part I knew. We were not allowed … different attitude. He wanted to get out of the country, he said, he will go to Canada. And he did. I stayed behind. In the summer of 1989 … people here in the Yukon, I began to believe in myself. I learned to become a professional child care worker and after years I decided to go …
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… home immediately. Neither one of us knew a word of English, however we had four lovely children, all educated and great careers. My wife passed on at the age of 65 in 1990. I've since stayed on my own, however blessed with caring children and … me alive in the first city that welcomed us to a new life. Pier 21's Wall of Honour to Immigrants is like the Stanley Cup to Canadians! Mr. …
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… first winter, my financial situation and the great loneliness of being so far and away from Mexico were all factors that really made me doubt … 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 … otherwise! I won’t ever forget Mexico! I am proud of my heritage and will always be, so let me put it in these words: I will never stop …