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  • Walter H. Cooper
    … met him in 1942. WE courted for about 3 years before marriage. We also had a son in England. After the war, my husband stayed behind in England to work on the clubs that had been taken over by the Canadians. He finally left for his home in …
  • Marino Dibenedetto
    … Date of Arrival: March 29, 1958 Age on Arrival: 18 I first decided to come to Canada when I was 17 years old. I wanted to come to Canada, … move to Canada. I applied to take a ship to Canada but they told me I had to be 18 to migrate to a new country. So I waited until I turned 18 to go back to Rome, and when I came back …
  • Second World War Mock Banana
    … your carbon footprint.  Claire Felloni , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Step 1: Peel and chop the parsnips and boil until soft. Step 2: Drain and mix in the sugar and banana extract. Step 3: …
  • Stanley, Martha, Gloria, Janet Jones
    … and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on January 17, 1954. We had lived in South End on Sea and then Colchester Essex before coming to Canada. The …
  • Refuge Canada - The Doll
    … doll here tells a story about two major groups of refugees who came to Canada. This doll is on loan from Dr. Tran-Davies, a medical doctor in Alberta. She came to Canada as a five-year-old girl in 1979 as part of the large group of … thousand Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees were resettled in Canada. This was a major commitment to Canada to resettle refugees and …
  • Growing up Canadian by Rahim
    … Time 0:02:19 Transcript Integrating into Canadian society has always been important to my family. For as long as I can … was continuing to grow back home in Kampala, Uganda. Shortly after completing their education and returning home, they gathered their … life in a new country they knew nothing about. The open immigration offered by the Canadian government was like a warm welcoming mother’s …
  • The Victor and Betty Last Family
    … them were their daughters Susan and Margaret and their sons Richard Hugh and Robert Jeremy. …
  • Major Waves of Immigration through Pier 21: War Brides and Their Children
    This blog entry has been expanded upon by its author Jan Raska PhD and can now be found under Research, Immigration History: …
  • Photographs-Coming to Canada
    … Photographs-Coming to Canada …
  • Artifacts-Ship and Train Memorabilia
    Artifacts-Ship and Train Memorabilia …

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