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… boy named Peep Aljas spent his first days in Canada under quarantine. He was born in Estonia in 1941 during the first Soviet occupation. He … to immigrate to Canada to join his future stepfather who was already here as a contract farm labourer. Peep’s dominant memory of the early …
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… On July 24th, our first sight of Canada was Pier21 in Halifax, where we first stepped foot on Canadian soil. The Gray nuns were right … a new language. Their children and grandchildren and generations to come should know what they sacrificed to bring us to this wonderful … has three sons and four grandchildren. Harry is an electrician for the city of Guilph, is married, and has two Children. Sietze is married, …
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Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
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… 1953 aboard the Italian Liner Saturnia. I immigrated to Canada together with my Mother Rosa and my brother Giovanni, to join my father … house in the suburbs with two other families. We then we moved to the city to Little Italy. I learned the language, got a job and started to … never forget the long 24 hour trip to Montreal, on a train of over 100 cars, moving at a very slow speed. Half way to Montreal, the water …
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Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
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… Pasquale 'Pat' Ruscio is the type of person the Sobey Wall of Honour at the Canadian Museum of … had to get him to Rome. Pat met his wife Annunziata (Nancy) in 1967 by chance while making a delivery to her family home in Genova, Italy. The …
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… children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train from Quebec City to Peterborough, Ontario to stay in a cottage in Bewdley on Rice … served in the British Army during WWII and never regretted the move here. They became proud Canadians and raised all their children to feel … and our parents and grandparents are buried in the Lakefield cemetery there. MEMORIES written by Sheila D. Bradwell (Pettifer) in 1994 The …
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… Time 0:04:40 Transcript My hometown is a little town which is in Guangdong province, which is in southern part of China, where there is lots of people immigrated to Canada because the golden rush and railroad … you are part of this society, and you also can make this country become better. Return to Charlottetown …
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… Time 0:04:22 Transcript When people ask me about my immigration story, the first picture that comes into my mind is the snowstorm. It was January 2010, my first trip … — I had just finished my immigration interview in Fredericton when I learned my bus to Moncton was cancelled because of the snow. I needed …
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… My family and I arrived in Canada on the Neptunia at Pier 21 on March 14 1956. Being born in East Germany in 1928, the early part of my life up to the late teens was spent there under the communist regime. Immediately after the war was over … strolling along the streets enjoying my first experience in a western city, I was accosted by a British service policeman. He, finding me …