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… be proceeding on to New York City. During the voyage, after several days of sailing, we encountered a terrible hurricane, which caused it to arrive in Halifax one day later than scheduled. My father, a British Naval Officer from WWII, … away almost 20 years ago, my mother will celebrate her 80th birthday this month in Victoria, BC. In recognition of this special occasion …
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… married in a civil ceremony on Oosterhout on September 16, 1952. Two days later Mr and Mrs Mass boarded the Groote Beer in Rotterdam for … lives in Canada. Trees had however, decided that the sight of dreary 1950's Halifax was not for her and offered to go back to Europe with … will be remembered my many foreign car enthusiasts from the 1960- 70's in Halifax. In 1967 they became very proud Canadian citizens as …
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… day there was a war, people came with guns, shooting. So many people died. Then my father ran away, we didn't know where he went. Then me …
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… the Red Cross and other organizations) as far as Truro by car -- next day up through New Glasgow, Antigonish, and the ferry crossing at Canso, along the Bras D'Or Lakes from St. Peters to Sydney -- beautiful scenery and the blue water! We then …
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… change their lives, and the lives of their children, forever. This 10 day voyage began aboard the immigration ship Zuiderkruis on which they … owning his own business, Dad decided to close the bakery and work for St. John's Training School in the kitchen and bakery. In 1963, the …
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… Pier 21 today, as it was in years past, is a building. For visitors past and … thousands of refugees and displaced people who arrived here during the 1940s and early 1950s, better than any of the histories that I have read or …
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… Newcomers from cities across Canada created a two to five-minute video … was added: digital stories. Working with facilitators from Community Story Strategies, we offered digital storytelling workshops across Canada. Newcomers from ten cities in six provinces and one territory participated …
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… in Occupied Europe. He landed in Normandy on Juno Beach on the first day of the invasion. When they reached Belgium he was ordered to leave the 1st Canadian army and joined the 4th Canadian army and went north to … From there he went to Germany until Germany capitulated on May 8, 1945. When Queen Wilhelmina visited the liberated part of the Netherlands …
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… hundred and forty thousand miles in England alone. I was in the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and I was on what they … look at photographs. They didn't have the cameras then as they have today. They just took photographs here and there, everywhere else and you … you spent half and hour or so looking at it different things would come such as convoys, the train stations and so on. You would mark that …
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… and one month. He served for four and one-half years until November 1945. On enrolment, he was part of the 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Artillery … 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. In September 1941, Gordon boarded the Louis Pasteur at Pier 21 bound for Scotland. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, they sailed up the River Clyde to Greenock where they debarked. They later traveled by train to …