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… Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother … that our plan was to move to Canada, only for 2-3 years, just to learn the English Language they could not understand why we wanted to move to America. After all we have the USA …
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… degli Istriani, Fiumani, e Dalmati che, costretti ad abbandonare le loro terr, trovarono nel Canada una nuova e generosa patria. July …
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… Departed Dec 19-1926, arrived Pier 21 Halifax, December 28 1926. Our 9 day voyage – Mother with 3 children ages 6, 4, 2, I was the oldest – … had ledges on them. Remember mother and friends playing cards outside the cabin, and chairs, tables and people going from one side of … to Pier 21 onshore. We were welcomed by ther Red Cross or Salvation Army, I recall the uniforms. We were a family of four: mother, two …
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… in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and after Franco's victory, my father took refuge in France in 1948. My mother and two brothers … Jr) joined him in 1949. In December 1951, they boarded the Fairsea at Le Havre and came to Canada. They landed in Halifax on December 4. From …
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… My immigration story as recounted by Rosa Maio on January 15, 2023. I … as my father would not have been able to make the trip to register me on my actual birthdate. Like many around us, my family was poor. … up early to work in the fields as it would get too hot later in the day. In summer, we walked and worked barefoot and, in the winter, we …
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… We came from Oldemarkt, Holland, but sailed from Le Havre on February 12, 1949 on the S.S Samaria. The family consisted … the voyage over, we encountered a severe storm. I only remember that my brother Batholemeus was the only one who was sick. The men and women …
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… The Immigration Story of Tullio Idilio Callegari (Italian Immigrant) In 1954, shortly after my 22nd birthday, my father, Gio Batta, passed away. My 38 year old …
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… previously unknown family history and how it led her to create In My Yesterday . Created in partnership with the Canadian Museum of … 我的昨日拾光 In My Yesterday …
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… Patricia Roberts-Pichette and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while … During our correspondence I mentioned that a visitor had let me scan what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned …
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… We arrived in Halifax on April 19, 1954 aboard "The Nuiderbrun"; father, mother, and ten children. Two of my brothers (John and Clarence, aged 12 and 13) traveled on to Sutton, …