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  • A Quarantine Label on the Door Doesn’t Make the Best First Impression
    … Things started getting complicated for English immigrant Jennifer Frances Taylor’s young family after they settled in Canada in June … and friendliness of teachers and children helped a lot. “Alas, however, they didn’t go for more than a week before Martin & John … tremendous flap in the district and the doctor insisted that we should have a large quarantine label on our door warning all children to keep …
  • Black Battalion No Longer ‘Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret
    … Black Battalion No Longer ‘Canada’s Best Kept Military Secret …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … of a son, Arsene Heyneman, my one and only sibling I would ever have. Although I did not necessarily realize it growing up, I had a … were now a country under occupation which we would endure for the next four years. As mayor and a very influential business man in the region, my father was regarded as a strategic asset to the German High Command. The Germans wasted no time in taking over our home and my …
  • "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut
    … 2020) Introduction Since Confederation, Canadian immigration officials have considered many factors in determining whether an individual was … Walnut ’s passengers helped to alter Canadian immigration policy and how Canadian officials processed new arrivals. Canadian Postwar … officials had their preferences in terms of immigrants to Canada. High Commissioner to London, Vincent Massey, reported from Occupied …
  • Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project
    By Haroon Khalid, Anam Zakaria, and Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, and we will always be okay, hopefully.” Rammah Mohammad. [1] Introduction In 2024, the Canadian …
  • Elfriede Gruber and George Novotny
    … being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my … sign up to go to Australia, since the refugee transport ship I would have been on blew up some 200 miles offshore and there were no … went through extreme misery. I have always been fortunate to have a high tolerance for motion sickness, but even so, on at least one …
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    … are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering Pier 21 in their Will. Frances … She touched so many people around her, and we were all blessed to have known her.” —Rita Ham, Mary Campanella’s Cousin Mary Campanella, … you get started. We hope this information is helpful for you as you have conversations with your loved ones and with your advisors. Step 1 …
  • Medical Facilities at Pier 21
    … that medical and physical requirements of the Immigration Act were “[f]or the protection of residents of Canada, and to ensure that … health law, including the Immigration Act. However, it would not have been possible for them to conduct a full examination of every passenger arriving in port: the sheer volume would have been overwhelming. [5] This problem pre-dated Pier 21’s operation, …
  • Kucha Family
    … Sharon Bonnallie Hungarian Immigrants Minnedosa (Steven) July 23, 1926 Berlin III (Margaret) February 11, 1934 Age: 5 years 8 mos for … (2009) with their entire family. It was a wonderful celebration. They have 3 children and two grandchildren – daughter Sharon (and husband … Alberta accompany us around the town. He also took us out to the sugar beet fields where Steve’s father worked when he first came to Canada. …

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