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I left my hometown of Lee on Solent on the 20th of March bound for Canada on the ship Scythia. My family was in Lee on Solent throughout the Second World War, my father being an air gunner navigator in the R A F. I met some wonderful people while crossing the Atlantic, two of which I am very close …
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Sarah MacLean Hutt …
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Margaret Chase Huxford On September 3rd I was in Times Square, New York. I saw the declaration of war spelt out on the moving letters on the top of the clock. I should have been overwhelmed with dread at the news and perhaps taken the next train home. But this was the trip of a lifetime, my first …
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Ishar Singh …
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Mahinder Kaur Singh …
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Anthony Theodore Singeris …
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It was the summer of '51 and I had barely turned fifteen. After a number of months in the I.R.O. ( International Refugees Organization ) camp at Bagnoli, near Naples, Italy, we had reached Bremerhaven, our final destination prior to our departure for Canada. CANADA? The name Canada meant absolutely …
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Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Argentina Panama Date of Arrival: October 21, 1951 Age on Arrival: 23 Bruno & friends aboard the Argentina Panama Bruno playing the accordian amongst friends aboard the Argentina …
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My father, Martin Seagull arrived in Halifax aboard the Baltic American ship Estonia, on March 28th,1926. A duty of the processing Immigration Officer was to "Canadianize" difficult to pronounce names of the new Canadians. In Polish, the name Szczygiel, translated to "Goldfinch", thus the name was …
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I arrived at Pier 21, November 6, 1946 after a ten day Sea Voyage on the Empire Brent. I travelled by train to London, Ontario, with a host of other War Brides on their way across Canada. The Red Cross and my husband, Walter MacDonald Searle , then in civilian clothes met me at the railway station. …