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… Alfonso came to Canada in 1953, at the age of 18, to join his brother and work in construction. He was reunited not only … his oldest sister Restituta, whom he had never met before that day in May of 1953. His intention was to work in Canada and earn enough money …
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… March 8 to May 3, 2017 A "Community Presents" exhibition. This exhibition, which opens on International Women’s Day, celebrates and explores identity from immigrant and migrant women’s perspectives. Using art as a … was to create an art exhibit that would enhance the participants' identity, sense of place, belonging and community connection. The …
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… 29, 1953 Age on Arrival: 25 Ulrich Paul Preugschat (dad) was born on 20th July, 1931 in Streuhofen, in the district of Schlossberg in what was East Prussia. He was the second … of the flight and stay in a refugee camp, they left a mark. On 19th March, 1953 he left Bremenhafen, Germany via the S.S. Arosa Kulm …
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… Lawrence Joseph Hebert November 27, 1920 - October 4, 2000 My father enlisted on June 16, 1941 and was discharged on January 26, 1946. He was in the first wave at Juno Beach on D-Day. That is all … He wouldn't talk about his experiences. But, inevitably, every June 6th he would say "I know where I was (x) number of years ago." Then he …
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… ‘Conte Biancamano' and headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia to eventually join her father Attilio and two other brothers, Alfredo & Angelo who …
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… Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, … which is a beautiful city in the Alps, just a beautiful, beautiful place. It is that to this day, everybody knows about it. But remember, … with my Uncle Joseph, whom really I learned to know then, and who I consider to this day to be an absolutely wonderful man. A very simply …
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… arrival , July 25, 1961. “When we first saw the picture, and when my mom saw the picture , it was very emotional. And it still is.” He … came through it. And now we have an even bigger sense of pride that my parents forever will be in the history of the Museum. That they are … From the moment she left her country - she was pregnant with my sister- she was very sick and ill because of the motion sickness. …
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… where she would marry our father Alceo D’Angelo. Our father had come to Canada previously in 1955. Travelling with my mother were two friends, Santina Romano and Marcella Pico. Her … Santina and Marcella were put on the train for British Columbia, and my parents left to start their new lives together in Sault Ste. Marie. …
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… now and, having gotten hooked on hiking, spending summers, from May to September, camping and hiking across Canada. They alternate between East and West. Dorothea worked for 26 years with the T. Eaton Co. and retired in 1993 at which time she …
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… His parents, Willard and Annie Ripley, raised eight children on the farm. Four of them are veterans of World War II. Ralston's war … Jobs of waterproofing and digging graves, first impression of the war zone, air war at night... break out and rush up the coast... Ghent, … Ripley (Briggs), arrived on the Aquitania with other War Brides on May 1, 1946. The couple settled on a farm in River Philip and raised …