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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", …
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… 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 …
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… 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: …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …