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… future wife, Audrey Smith , a young woman from England. Previously Lee had served with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Artillery and … to land in France on D-Day. The couple tell two different stories of how they met but agree it was at a dance in Eastleigh's old town hall. Audrey took a sudden dislike to him. When Leland asked Audrey out later she said she had to work and was embarrassed when she met him …
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… were living with their large family in the poor agricultural region of southern Italy, Calabria. They lived in the town of San Giorgio Margeto where they had been born and married and were now raising four children, Domeninco … war Italy and made the decision to emigrate to Canada. Choosing to come to Canada made the most sense given that both had family already …
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… there and it never came into my mind that I would live in Canada someday. All things were changed because of my daughter. She graduated … then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years …
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… from French) YM : Yes (laughs), yes. Every time—the biggest file to complete is the permanent residency. There’s a medical section too: you … they said I spoke French and English well enough, but I’d imagine for someone from... I don’t know, Latin America, etcetera, it’s different, … funny cause when you get your permanent residence paper, the agent officially declares: “You are now a permanent resident. You have the …
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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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… Abandoned well, Lawlor's Island, September 2011. Credit: Photo by Steven … Why all the love for the other islands, and no joy for this one? Well, Lawlor’s has a complex history. It was the quarantine facility … only six days. Despite these and other minor issues, the group fared well medically, and was soon approved to carry on to their new homes in …
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… 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 … walking around the deck, and the ship creaked and to me it seemed to say "I'm old and tired." We were aboard her on one of her last voyages …
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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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… and one which neither of them liked to discuss. Dorothy already had family in Niagara Falls, Ontario and so the decision was made to immigrate to that city. Dorothy, although …
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… reasons . The accommodation dormitories ran along the west (inland) wall of the second storey of Shed 21. These were large, plain rooms …