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  • Nives Zuttioni
    … said that she was destined to immigrate to Canada because her birthday is on July 1st – Canada Day. As well, her dad, Luigi Zuttioni, was an Italian soldier during … of National Health and Welfare in Rome and was granted a visa to come to Canada. With the airline ticket that Mario had bought her in …
  • Recommended Resources - Netherlands
    … and the Growth of the Dutch Community. The Postwar Wave and Its Predecessors.” (unpublished manuscript). Curtis, Herb. The Scholten Story . Oromocto, N.B., 1996. De Jong, Gerald. The Dutch in America 1609-1974 . Boston: Twayne … Recommended Resources - Netherlands …
  • LCpl William A. Fuller
    Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa Photos from life at camp in Petawawa …
  • Private Harry Heinz
    … which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … all made for great entertainment. The local children were always welcome to gather in the doorway and watch the action from a safe … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
  • Private Ella Heinz Rinder
    … which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … all made for great entertainment. The local children were always welcome to gather in the doorway and watch the action from a safe … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
  • L/Cpl William Heinz
    … which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … all made for great entertainment. The local children were always welcome to gather in the doorway and watch the action from a safe … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
  • Emmanuel and Rose Flaig
    … which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … all made for great entertainment. The local children were always welcome to gather in the doorway and watch the action from a safe … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
  • Sgt. Elroy Heinz
    … which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … all made for great entertainment. The local children were always welcome to gather in the doorway and watch the action from a safe … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
  • Immigration from the US - Biographies
    … in Dearborn Michigan with his mother, father and older brother. He studied physics at Kalamazoo College where he met his wife Janet. At that … to a War Resister Diane Kristensen was born in Indiana in 1948. She studied industrial design at the University of Cincinnati and was involved … Columbia where a group of Swarthmore graduates were starting a farming commune. Peter stayed for three years, later moving to Vancouver to …
  • Canada’s Oppressed Minority Policy and the Resettlement of Ugandan Asians, 1972-1973
    … by the time you get anywhere near they say ‘Oh no, it’s closed now. Come tomorrow.’ So people were really, really completely … quick to assist in resettling a further 2,000 Ugandan Asians who had become stateless during the 90-day eviction period, many of whom thought …

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