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  • “When Mom saw the picture, it was very emotional”
    … 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. …
  • Olesya Aleksandrova
    … Oh we didn’t have anything, it was an empty apartment. No spoons no plates, nothing. So we bought first our thing was in Walmart we bought … born and raised in Kyrgyzstan in the late 1970s. She began studying economics and government investment at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in 1995. She graduated in 2002 and went on to complete a master’s degree focusing on the medical system in …
  • Operation Parasol: Urgent need, swift action
    … May 3 to July 28, 2024 This year marks the 25th anniversary of the resettlement and repatriation of Kosovar … Arrival,” Government of Canada, last modified December 16, 2015. “We want to make sure they had all their needs taken care of…many of …
  • Athanasia Christoforatos
    … family, friends, even strangers. Bobby often described those years as “the best [years] of his life”. Their incredible work ethic, passion … to those who loved them. Their spirit and guidance are endless. May their memory be eternal. Charalampos Christoforatos, born in …
  • Giovanni Diodato Guglietti
    … Giovanni Diodato Guglietti was born on September 27th 1935 as the first of five children born to Vincenzo Guglietti and … of winter, as fast as possible. During this time his brother Carmine joined him in Toronto and they made arrangements for his mother, other … and future wife, Concetta DeGasperis . They were married on August 26, 1961 and soon started a family of their own welcoming in to the …
  • John Conlan
    … John Conlan was born in Clonlara, Co. Clare, Ireland on April 2, 1912. … that he would go to Canada first and his wife and children would join him later in the year. John traveled to Cork and boarded the … spent 3 weeks at sea and endured several storms during the journey. On May 22, 1952 he landed in Halifax Harbour at Pier 21 and waited 8 hours …
  • Charalampos Christoforatos
    … family, friends, even strangers. Bobby often described those years as “the best [years] of his life”. Their incredible work ethic, passion … to those who loved them. Their spirit and guidance are endless. May their memory be eternal. Charalampos Christoforatos, born in …
  • Aili Edit Kinnunen
    … Finland Ship Name: Caronia , Cunard Date of Arrival: April 21, 1929 My grandmother, Ms. Aili Edit Kinnunen, at the age of 28 set sail for … prepared by her granddaughter, Nancy, in honour of her father's 75th birthday. …
  • Morris Ladenheim
    … being separated from his extended family including his grandparents with whom he had lived his entire life. It meant leaving behind … What did Morris Ladenheim eventually learn about those who did not come to Canada? He learned of the murder of his grandparents by the … to escape the Nazis and their “Final Solution”. He learned that in May 1939, Canada refused entry to the 907 desperate German Jews on …
  • Jozwiak, Yarosh,
    … who was Ukrainian. Mary had one sister Hanja, and two brothers, John (Jan) and Michael. She arrived in Canada on October 27, 1927, on … brother John in Toronto. There, she met and married John Yarosh (born Joannes Jarosz) on June 22, 1929. They had one son Ronald John Yarosh …

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