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  • Bernardus G. Nolte
    After eight days crossing the North Atlantic Ocean, our arrival in Canada was exciting, although quite a few passengers on the boat lost a few pounds to seasickness, etc. The custom agents were friendly and very helpful to speed up the processing of the new arrivals. We were to take a train ride …
  • The Kurt Nordqvist Family
    The Kurt Nordqvist Family …
  • Patricia Norlander and son Stanley
    I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army buddy. Trying for a maturity I didn't yet possess, I pretended I was older than my seventeen years. Much to his surprise I hadn't aged any when he returned two years later …
  • Ellen M. Nielsen, Birthe and Inge
    Inge Nielsen Inge came to Canada with her sister Birthe Marie and mother Ellen Margrethe Nielsen. Inge has three sons, two of whom are married, by her first husband who passed away at age 40 and two married daughters by her second husband Tom Robson. They live on a farm that was a Century farm in …
  • Assunta Nicolini
    Assunta Nicolini …
  • Gino Luigi Nicolini
    Gino Luigi Nicolini …
  • Lorenzo Pietro Nicolini
    Lorenzo Pietro Nicolini …
  • Anna Spaunberg
    Families Before 1956 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 – Anna (Wohl) Wahl, 6 years old, born October 18 1920 in Nemetker, Hungary. Very rough seas, I was sick the entire trip. Christmas on board …
  • Irene Gadja
    Families Before 1956 My dad spoke very little of his family. Few facts are known to me, he lived in a village in Hungary close to the Romanian border, his home was a thatched house with dirt floor that he shared with his six siblings. He never mentioned his father, all I knew of his mother that she …
  • Kucha Family
    Families Before 1956 Steven and Margaret Kucha by Daughter Sharon Bonnallie Hungarian Immigrants Minnedosa (Steven) July 23, 1926 Berlin III (Margaret) February 11, 1934 Age: 5 years 8 mos for Steven F 8 years for Margaret S (left Hungary on her birthday) January 26, 1934 Steven F. Kucha, Jr. …

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