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Dad’s Story Our father, Douglas Seaman Boyle, was born November 29, 1923 in the landlocked Rocky Mountain town of Revelstoke, British Columbia. His middle name, prophetic as it turned out to be, was his mother’s family name. Susan Ann Dorothy and Allan Douglas Boyle, his parents, had immigrated …
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Alumni Type: War Bride Country of Origin: England Ship Name: Letitia Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: April 1946 I left my home with my 14-month-old baby Shirley Ann. We were mustered in an old house in London, sleeping on iron bunks. We left two days later for Liverpool, a port …
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Immigrant: Thomas Hall Humble Born: 9 April 1904 Camperdown, Northumberland, England Died: 4 February 1957 London, England Occupation: Coal Miner Arrival: Pier21, Halifax, 18 August 1928 Ship: Franconia, Cunard Immigrant: Clifford Robert Hall Born: 17 July 1942 London, England Occupation: …
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Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: Goya Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: March 9, 1951 … Vaclav Bill Majovsky …
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© Government of Canada. Reproduced with the permission of Library and Archives Canada (2023). Source: Library and Archives Canada/RG18, vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There are neighbourhoods called Greektown, Little Italy and Little Portugal. In …
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Joan's husband Gerald Wilson . Joan's daughter Sandra . … Joan Farrell Wilson …
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Country of Origin: Holland Ship Name: SS Volendam Date of Arrival: February 23, 1951 Age on Arrival: 5 Travelled by train to Smithville, Ontario for my father to work on a dairy farm in Cayuga, Ontario. Moved to St Catherines, Ontario to work on a nursay and grape farm. Moved to Niagara Falls, …
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On April 9, 1949, John and Kirsten Karding disembarked from a Swedish Emigrant ship Goteborg ship at Pier 21. Twenty-seven years earlier they were born in Denmark, John in Central, and Kirsten in the northwest Jutland peninsula. On January 26th, 1922, John was born Johannes Therkelsen, the youngest …
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John Conlan was born in Clonlara, Co. Clare, Ireland on April 2, 1912. He became an electrician while working in Ardnacrusha on the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme which was completed on July 29, 1929. As work became harder to find, he and his wife decided to immigrate to Australia. However after …
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… John D. Haikings …