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  • Discoveries for Everyone
    Soft Landing Seven bite-sized stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the places they landed-people who changed their communities and were changed themselves. Explore the gallery → Countless Journeys Podcast Listen in on these original interviews where guests share the …
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    Our parents, Mary (Maria) Jacobs and Adrian (Adrianus) van Dongen were married in January 1951 in Rijen, Noord Brabant, Holland and came to Canada by boat (the Volendam) arriving at Pier 21, Halifax, on February 24th. Dad wanted to farm. Like many others in Holland, his family didn’t have enough …
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