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The Pier 21 Story Guided 30-minute tours of Pier 21 are offered in English and French. Tours and movie viewing times available throughout the day. An audio guided tour is available via the NaviLens app . Join our professional Heritage Interpreters for a guided tour of Pier 21. If you are curious …
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… working on the railroad as a worker and also cut hair on the side. One day a Poole Construction truck came by and said they needed a few men …
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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 – …
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… Canadian soil. The next leg of their journey involved a two or three day train ride to Hamilton. Each person was given a few dollars for the …
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… She is a woman of Honour... She (OLIVE MAY HALL) immigrated to Canada … after WWII who was from Strathmore,Quebec. Still married to this day 56 years later, with nine(9) grown children and several grand … happy to be on land. A photographer from Montreal took her picture (she thinks it was The Standard - front page) then they boarded a train …
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… our parents on March 7, 1955. We travelled from Naples Italy aboard SS Saturnia, to Palermo, to Genova, to Portugal and finally to Halifax. … we looked like a herd of people. My parents remembered that day, and told me that they will never forget it. They did not know what … All that in only in 15 days! I remember my mother Ernestina, she was worried about finding food for us, then she worried about …
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The family was sponsored by Dan Blender, a gardener in Craven, Saskatchewan. The trip to Saskatchewan by train took several says- arriving on July 1, 1952. It had rained for days in the Regina area and the roads were covered to a slimy soft muck, in which we got stuck. Having relatives who preceded …
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Jean Bowman Courchaine …
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… Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: April 11, 1956 Griet and Louw de Vries with Karel, Bob & Netty (Jeannette); Netty and Bob at the …
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… where he assumed the position of Rear-Gunner on the Halifax bombers. He also returned home via Pier 21 after a horrific accident which … burns and the emotional scars left from losing his dear friends. John eventually married Mary Christine Mac Donald, also from Glace … missed by family and friends. His crew members who died that February day and "second family" as he referred to them were: F/O Richard M. …