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… March 1952 At 15 years of age, somehow I knew I would not always stay in my home country. That was about one year after a 5-year occupation … The idea to emigrate did not seem strange to me, or my family. We had already moved three times by the time I was nine. Once we moved …
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… Background: Though of mixed German-Dutch parentage, I grew up in Germany (Saxony); by the time I was 18, I had lived through the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the Hitler-regime including six years of World War … Forces I not only became legitimized, but also exposed to the American way of life, and the idea of emigrating first occurred; however, the …
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… touring and researching my arrival to Canada on the ship - Vulcania. We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on December 29, 1952. This account is the story of Peppino, a nine-year-old boy emigrating to Canada from the town of Agnone, in the Molise region … Anniballe to Naples where they would begin their journey to Canada. Well wishes, farewells and tears were exchanged with close family …
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… Rosevale Street Primary School, ranking 3rd in my class. As a young boy I played soccer in the streets of Partick. I completed a 6 year … and promised to care for us and together they had my half-sister. We were on coupons but thanks to the Canadian Merchant Navy ships we …
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… vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There are neighbourhoods called Greektown, Little Italy and Little Portugal. In pre-war Vancouver, the Powell Street area in the Downtown Eastside was home to thousands of Japanese Canadians . …
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… which was published in a local book about immigrants "In Search Of A Better Life..." What was he thinking of that day in the … Vesuvio and to his family that had gathered on the shore to bid farewell to a brave son and soldier. Was he fearful of venturing out to the … As the ship pulled out of the Gulf of Naples and the Vesuvio faded away to a mere shadow in the distance, did he have second thoughts of …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) In summer of 2012, I visited Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa to conduct archival research for the historical context … understanding of the period spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Including the latter case, I began to wonder what …
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… April 1955 Our trip was never without excitement; we left our hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to … departing from the Port of Naples. Well, our excitement started right away as I was sick and no matter how much my dad tried to bribe the …
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… Arie Dirk Bestebreurtje, born April, 1916 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Father, Anton D. Bestebreurtje moved the … he volunteered for the OSS. He became a Jedburgh, a group of fewer than 300 men within the OSS. Their job was to drop in teams of 3 … and another daughter in 1954. By 1954 Arie could have been well on his way to a lucrative law career. A bona fide war hero with a top flight …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Origins of World Refugee Year In the spring of 1958, four young individuals affiliated with the Bow … A Sympathetic Interest in the Plight of Refugees: World Refugee Year in Canada …