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Anna Kucharska entered Canada as a landed immigrant, coming to her father who was residing in Toronto, Ontario at that time. At the age of seventeen, Anna left the only world she had known. Leaving behind her mother and siblings, she undertook the long and difficult journey to an unknown country, …
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Topic: Refugees …
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Topic: War …
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… Fedor, Maria, Maria Ann Namisniak …
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Topic: Immigration Facilities …
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Topic: Religious Persecution …
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At age 21, Filippo Trento left Trieste, Italy bound for Halifax, Canada. He arrived at Pier 21 on March 21st, 1957 aboard the Saturnia. He left his entire family - 4 sisters, 2 brothers and his father to seek a better life in Canada. He did not know if he would ever see his family again. The …
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Soon it was March 11, 1953, a warm and bright spring day and also the day we steamed out of Copenhagen harbour bound for an uncertain, but, hopefully, promising future. The entire family had gathered on the waterfront to bid us bon voyage. It was a tearful event, and Uncle Kurt ran the length of …
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Topic: Museums and Heritage Institutions …
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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 while Germany was in such desperate shape in 1945 that my …