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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:08 Transcript So, we took a plane from Miami to … we liked that because we didn’t feel lonely so we feel that we had company. And his mother-in-law, his mo—yeah, his mother-in-law—she had … with cheese— like fresh cheese—also from Colombia. So we liked coming to the house and having that type of food. Oral History …
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… in hand, and stopped me from making myself violently ill. On the four-day train trip I became quite ill with a fever of 104 degrees F. A …
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… my mother told me that our land is almost takes over by the Burmese soldiers. My family started to move in Canada. When I am in Canada …
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… Lina and Vincenza and I left Naples on March 8, on a clear and sunny day. The trip was without incident until we were midway through our … arrive to Toronto. There we met my father who was already here having come to Canada in 1951. He hugged me and raised me to his chest and …
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… her Anna Teresa, in honour of my father’s own and only sister who had died suddenly at the age of 21. And within two years of her birth, the … patch made of cotton pushed into place by glasses, my father never complained of his trials, but pursued life with kindness, gentleness … force of this small familial unit. Joining the work force, their combined effort and ambition led my parents to open and grow their very …
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… wash diapers and baby bottles. We got through it though and the next day we were put on buses to take us to Southampton" from there we started on our journey to Canada. It took six days. It was an awful time. I was seasick all the time, as well as my …
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… and Maria Zampini, and his Uncle Michelino and Aunt Sylvia on the day of their arrival , July 25, 1961. “When we first saw the picture, …
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… stopped at the following ports: New York, Boston, Halifax-Ponta Delgada, Lisbon, Casablanca, Gibraltar, Palma De Mallorca, Barcelona, Cannes, Genoa, Palermo, Naples, Patras, Venice … as a passenger ship until 1965. Updated Nov. 25, 2014 : Ennio Paola identified himself as the baby in the photo, at age nine months. Ennio …
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… of German descent, spoke seven languages, and never went to school a day in her life. Until the invasion, the children spoke German and … Canada. They alternate between East and West. Dorothea worked for 26 years with the T. Eaton Co. and retired in 1993 at which time she …
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… went back to Italy to visit in 1967. I have never been back. One day I hope to go and see the little town where I was born. The "Conte … and my mother had to stay with him in the ship's hospital for a few days. I was left alone to go to the dining room for my meals and I got … much like a cattle train, and I remember that we had little food. Two days later we arrived in Toronto's Union Station. My father was waiting …