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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 … Pte. Lawrence J. Hebert …
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… four children Hans (Hank), age 12, Maria Hinke, age 11, Aaltje (Alice), age 9 and Anna Maria, age 2, left Rotterdam, the Netherlands on … the Zuiderkruis was on its way to Indonesia, most of the crew on this luxury liner were Japanese. The family was able to stay together in … 60 to 80 hours per week (except Sundays), every week of every year for 26 years. Since the sponsors for the family were situated in both …
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… My father, Arthur Fisher (Pte. #M105058), was born in Hay Lakes, Alberta, November 11, 1922. His parents Emilge (Frederick) and Rudolph Fisher, were Russian … well-respected blacksmith. My father enlisted in the army on November 26, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta. Pte. Fisher underwent basic training in … Private Arthur Fisher …
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… Pier 21. I was four years old so I don't remember anything except for the long train ride from Halifax to Montreal where my grandfather came … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother … herder without a trade and without much schooling so he decided to come to Canada in search of a better life for his family. He had …
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… Holland on Pier 21- Friday, April 2. 1954. I was 28 years old (born 1926), my wife 26 years (1928) and our son was born June 21, 1953. We sailed on the …
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Concetta DeGasperis was the fourth of six children born to Attilio DeGasperis & Rosina Colucci, in the small central Italian town of Sora, Frosinone. On February 11, 1960, Concetta along with her mother Rosina, her sister Mary and brothers, Antonio & Carlo, boarded the ‘Conte Biancamano' and headed …
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… and anti-racism. During the residency Santiago continued to develop his play Long-Distance-Short (working title). On March 26, 2025 a local audience was treated to a participatory …
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… My brother and I traveled as Italian citizens with Italian passports. My … was of Italian origin and was not allowed to become a Danish citizen this rule passed on to his children and on to us. I had never met my … I spoke Italian better then Danish. My marriage to an Italian has helped me retain the language. Walter and I are married 42 years …
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… Lydia was born in White Russia. As a young girl, she worked as a domestic and eventually ended up in Chorzow. She married … engine repair shop in Vancouver until it shut down. He did practice his trade in Northern BC but spent most of his working life in the … 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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… Chieti Scalo to Selva Del Montello, Italy and finally Canada. My father Elio was born on November 26th 1926 in Chieti Scalo in the region of Abruzzo which is in central … of Abruzzo as he would deliver crates of the popular soft drink on his 3 wheel bicycle. My father came from a family of 7 siblings where …