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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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… 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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… 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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… The first farm I worked at he could not pronounce my Dutch name so the farmer said "I will call you Jack" and that is what it has been ever since. However, it was the best trip I ever made and I am so proud of my Canadian citizenship. "O Canada." …
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… My son and I arrived at Pier 21 in April 1946 on the Hospital Ship … by that time as my husband John Oliphant of the Canadian Engineers had died July 15, 1945). I decided to come over with my son so that he could meet his grandpa and grandma in … Margaret and son Grant Oliphant …
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… Icek "Isaac" Gotfried, Arrived on the General Stewart Heinzelman, November 19, 1947. I arrived in Halifax in the fall of 1947. Since we had four hours to wait for the train to depart for Winnipeg, we roamed … vinegar in the store windows which we thought was wine. It was cheap so we bought some and drank it like wine but it tasted like vinegar, so …
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… siblings. As the youngest of this first generation in Canada I am so very proud of our family's many successes in business and education. The Pier 21 Society is so deserving of credit for preserving a record of our Canadian …
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… and three sisters. I was 7 years old and was sea-sick the entire time, so that when we arrived, I was a wee skinny kid that just barely … After we landed, we boarded the train to Union Station, Toronto; we had an uncle who sponsored us, and a church that helped us settle. For … jugs so I could gain some weight and strength. That didn't always sit well with my sisters, who felt I was "spoiled." In 2002, I had the …
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… Liverpool, having arrived there from a refugee camp in Austria. We had escaped from Hungary in Dec. 1956, following the unsuccessful … and the new world, were a mixture of confusion, terror and curiosity. While on board the Britannic waiting to dock I became aware of the … we were to be taken to a "hall". To my Hungarian ears that notion sounded unusual. You see in Hungarian, "Hal" with one "L" means "fish", …