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Gerardo Catherina …
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… My story is very similar to many others - in the first few months if there has been a road back I would have walked … farm I worked at he could not pronounce my Dutch name so the farmer said "I will call you Jack" and that is what it has been ever since. …
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… son Alastair Douglas arrived at Pier 21 in June 1946. We were aboard the Queen Mary with many "War Brides" and their children. Each of us was met by a serviceman, who picked up my 2 … John Bellamy and Robert Gray, and as Prime Minster Mackenzie king had said on board that he hoped our children would enjoy being Canadian …
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Identification photo of Ralph - 1956 Rose's Passport Photo …
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… Edward was born on August 11, 1923 in Poland in the village of Łany Wielkie, Olkusz County, Kielce. His parents were … the German family that he worked for. In fact, on one of his last visits to Poland in the eighties, he travelled to Regenzburg and …
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June 28 to July 11, 2016 Winner of the 2016 Applied Arts Conceptual Illustration award, Canada’s Self Portrait is a participatory art project about who we are and what we stand for as Canadians. For three weeks during the summer of 2014, artist Aquil Virani and cofounder Rebecca Jones took a …
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… job (laughs), so I wouldn’t get tired of it, and I could do it on the side whenever I felt like it. So when I heard that they were looking … for artists, I put my own name forward hoping that I would be considered, because it’s something that I think is really fun that I get … what I’m doing, sort of as a career. I love history and this way I can bring both of my loves, history and art, together. Return to our …
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I spent the whole voyage from Liverpool to Halifax in the ship's hospital with pneumonia, while my two daughters were looked after by the wonderful staff. Arriving in Ottawa as a war bride, it didn't take long for me to realise that I had married an alcoholic. However, with no alternative but to …
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… Families 1956 My father and I left Hungary in 1956 shortly after the revolution. I was … my father attended to his papers. A man in a uniform came over and said something but I didn’t understand him. When he left he smiled and … waved bye to me. But I do remember that everything smelled like the sea and kind of a fishy smell, but that was probably from the ocean …
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… Arrived in Canada on the S.S. Maasdam, March 1954 at the age of 23 from Ness a/d Amstel, Netherlands. Worked as a farmhand in … 32 years, works as a caretaker for a private hunting club on the QC side of the Ottawa River. Proud father of 5 children, 3 living in the …