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Chairperson Robert Vineberg Winnipeg, Manitoba Vice-Chairperson Cynthia Price Verreault Montréal, Quebec Trustees Salima Ebrahim Edmonton, Alberta Omar Farouk Brampton, ON Kathy Hambly Charlottetown, PEI Mona Kumar Mississauga, Ontario Caroline Lavoie Montréal, Quebec Robert Vineberg Robert …
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Refuge Canada Refuge Canada Tent … Interpretation Guidelines and Resources for Travelling Exhibitions …
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In war time all road signs are taken down - one Canadian soldier must have found some in Belguim and caned out these souvenirs. … Sapper Clarence A. McKay …
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“Sapper” Melvin E ( Mel ) Clark MEDALS: 39/45 star Italy Star France Germany Star Defense of Britain Medal CVSM (Can Volunteer Service Medal) Victory Medal ................................................................................... September 1939 war declared 1941 - Joined the Canadian …
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Sister Florence Kelly Sisters of Service Volunteer Pier 21 Immigration Facility Inscription on the Cross worn by the Sisters of Service – “I have come to serve” Born in Windsor, Ontario, Florence Kelly moved with her parents at the age of 7 to a farm in Greenock, Township, Bruce County, Ontario, …
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… Salvatore Panzera …
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Bernardus (Ben) Theodorus Josephus Arts was born on March 3rd, 1931 in Lithoyen, Netherlands. Ben was 9 years old when World War II broke out and was 14 when it finished. He remembered the day the Germans invaded Holland, the buzz of VI and VII bombs and the explosions in the fields around his …
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Sister Salvatrice Liota was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the daughter of Italian immigrants, Sr. Liota has devoted her life to welcoming newcomers to Canada, easing their transition to a new land, language and culture. As a member of Sisters of Service of Canada, she served at Pier 21 from 1955 to …
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Carl Kitchener Fulford was born on a farm in the Blue Mountain district of Collingwood, Ontario on May 4, 1915. At the age of 23, he left the farm to find work in the gold mines of Northern Ontario, settling in the growing mining town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. When war broke out in Europe in 1939, …
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My mother and father, Lawrence J. Hebert, met when the troops were being gathered in Lincolnshire in preparation for D-Day. My cousin, Joan Chudley, said there were men everywhere - sleeping in barns, beside roads and so on. She said on D-Day, early in the morning, the bombers took to the air. When …