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My Journey started 7th July 1952 in West Berlin (US Sector). I left Berlin by Bus with approximately 50 to 60 other men between the ages of 18 to 25. The bus went on the Autobahn through the Russian Zone (later East Germany or DDR). The Russian checkpoint was Marienborne. Later we crossed into the …
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Ralston was born in 1918 in River Philip, Nova Scotia. His parents, Willard and Annie Ripley, raised eight children on the farm. Four of them are veterans of World War II. Ralston's war service started in February, 1942, when at the age of 24 he enlisted at New Glasgow, N.S. For his basic training …
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James Gregg was one of seven siblings (William, Gerald, Richard, James, Gertrude, John, and Norman) born to Agnes and William Oscar Gregg, and William Onias Crossfield. He was born and raised in the small coal mining town of Corbin, B.C. At the young age of eighteen he decided to seek new …
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Walter Vandekamp was born on March 31, 1908. His name was Wounter v.d. Kamp, later changed to Walter Vandekamp. He arrived in Halifax in March of 1928 on board the M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, the first ship to dock at Pier 21. He traveled to Vancouver and started working for Grauers Dairy farms until …
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Lawrence & his wife, Marianne Ferguson . … Sergeant Lawrence B. Ferguson …
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Thomas Maksymchuk was born in Ukraine on January 15, 1917. He immigrated to Canada in June, 1930 with his parents, Andrew and Anna Maksymchuk , who had changed the date of his birth on his documents (October 6, 1918) in order to have him travel at half fare. In 1942 he voluntarily enlisted for WWII …
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Country of Origin: Wales Ship Name: Queen Mary Date of Arrival: July 1946 Gwladys Rees Aikens was born in Swansea, South Wales. She was educated in Wales and received her nursing training in England. At the beginning of WWII, she joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Services …
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My father Stanley Clifford Jones, then age 40 years, and my mother Martha Jones, 33 years, with myself Gloria Jones, age 9 years and my sister Janet Jones, age 7 years, left Liverpool England and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on January 17, 1954. We had lived in South End on Sea and then …
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Steven F. Kucha, Jr. (Istvan Kucsa, Jr.) left from his homeland of Fot, Hungary, with his mother (Mary), and sailed from Antwerp on the ship called the Minnedosa and arrived in Halifax July 23, 1926. He was just over five years, 8 mos. old when he arrived in Canada. He and his Mother were then put …
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THE TALE OF A UKRANIAN IMMIGRANT Irene Turczyniak I was born in Western Ukraine in 1924 in the village in Bohatkiwci. I lived there until I finished elementary school. Then, my parents enrolled me in high school in the picturesque city of Berezhany. There I attended school until 1939. September …