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  • Anton and Paula Rouss
    … Families August 11, 1953 – Sibajak My name is Anton Rouss. I arrived with my wife Paula (nee Van Den Berg, married on July 15th 1953) on the M.S. Sibajack on August 11th 1953 after leaving …
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    … some rooms to registered not-for-profit and government organizations. Please inquire directly with a member of our Facility Rentals team. How … music or live entertainment is employed. SOCAN (the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) represents music … Without dancing With dancing 1-100 $9.25 $18.51 101-300 $13.30 $26.63 301-500 $27.76 $55.52 Over 500 $39.33 $78.66 *All rates are …
  • History
    … Hungarian Immigration to Canada The homeland of Canada’s Hungarians has a long and interesting history which helped shape these industrious and resilient people. Carpathian or the Middle Danube … was an important waterway from pre-Roman times. The Magyars, who would come to be known as Hungarians, travelled from the foothills of the …
  • Customs and the Seizure of Goods at Pier 21
    … Canadian Customs before and after the Second World War In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened new exhibitions on the history of the Pier 21 National Historic Site of Canada and the history of immigration to Canada. This blog is … 1938, Gerda Kiel notes that her father “bought a farm 2 ½ miles south of Falun, [Alberta] with money he brought from Europe (Poland). …
  • William and Jane Mays and Family
    … William and Jane Mays and Family …
  • Mark, Edna and Keith Brain
    … BRAIN, Keith - Immigration Story Written by father Mark Brain Mark, Edna and Keith Brain’s Journey to Canada November 8, 1948. My wife Edna and I and our eleven months old son, Keith, left the … we were served turkey, vegetables, sweet and ice cream. The next day we had soup, Pork and stuffing, apple sauce, a sweet and ice cream …
  • Signalman William J. Campbell
    … scheduled to leave England, Jean wrote Bill and asked him if he did want her to join him in Canada. Bill responded promptly with a “Yes”. … aware that Bill had a serious relationship with a woman in Holland and may have fathered a child. After much searching, they were delighted to …
  • Kookoo Sabzi - Naz Deravian
    … The bunches upon bunches of green herbs that take over our kitchen table on a regular basis are mixed here with a few eggs and spices for a fragrant, fresh, and vibrant kookoo sabzi. Use this recipe as a guide for all the greens and spices that can be thrown in. This kookoo is … except for the eggs and the oil to the green herbs and give a stir to combine. Add the eggs and mix well to combine. The batter should have …
  • Cescato Aldo, Renato
    … Skip to Maria's Story Aldo Cescato My life as an immigrant began a few years after the second world war … look for construction and rail workers. At that time many also went to South America (Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela) to work in construction. … After passing the medical a group of 150 men from Treviso left in May for Milan where we were subjected to another medical exam. Then we …
  • Reinhard, Anna Lehmann
    … time, now it is Western Ukraine), in 1936 of ethnic German parents. My ancestors emigrated to Volhynia from Central Poland where they were born in the 19th century. In 1939, after Russia and Germany partitioned Poland, we …

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