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Families 1956 My father and I left Hungary in 1956 shortly after the revolution. I was about 6 years old at that time. We spent about two years in several refugee camps in Yugoslavia and ended up in Italy. From there we found sponsors in Canada and arrived at Halifax harbor on January 18, 1958 …
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Families 1956 The journey began with a trip to a luggage shop to buy 2 bags to hold our most prized worldly possessions. The revolution that started with so much hope was beaten; Budapest was in ruins and bleeding. Mother’s yearning for the support and comfort of her brother who has been living in …
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Families 1956 From Stalin to Kellogg’s Cornflakes By: Janos Maté Had it not been for Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin my older brother Gabor and I may never have had the opportunity to crunch on Kellogg’s Cornflakes in our childhood. Such gratification would most likely have been delayed by some 35 …
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Skip to Maria's Story Aldo Cescato My life as an immigrant began a few years after the second world war when I was 23 years old. I had been born and raised in the Veneto region of Italy, a region found in the Northern part of Italy that has always been an agricultural region up until the 1960's. …
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Walter Cooper was born in Ontario of British immigrants, but lived most of his life in British Columbia. He was left an orphan at the age of 6. He joined the armed services in 1940 in Kamloops B.C. He was at various training camps before going overseas in 1942. At the age of 27, he was billeted in …
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Onorio Copetti …
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The Corindia Family …
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Mother and I began our venture to Canada in October, 1953 where we left on board the TSS Olympia on its maiden voyage, covering a route similar to the Titanic, visiting various ports of call in the process. One stop was to cross over to Ireland. In this case we hit a very rough sea, which the Irish …
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Luigi Gelindo Corra …
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Maria Corra …