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Sport As with many European countries, football (soccer) is the most popular sport in Italy. Other sports such as rugby and volleyball are also enjoyed. In areas of Italy, where the Americans stayed during the Second World War, there is a strong, although small, following of the sport of baseball. …
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Arrival in Canada “We were terrified of the cold land and the large amount of snow, where people were different and spoke a foreign language.” (Anonietta Lanni nee Venditti) Deciding to Leave ”I know that my father loved his family, his home and his country and the experience of leaving it all …
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Italian Immigration, National Statistics* Year Total 1928 849 1929 1243 1930 1104 1931 467 1932 280 1933 253 1934 320 1935 333 1936 298 1937 416 1938 367 1939 202 1940 90 1941 2 1942 0 1943 3 1944 15 1945 43 1946 145 1947 139 1948 3202 1949 7742 1950 9059 1951 24351 1952 21383 1953 24293 1954 …
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Families 1956 My family, mother, father, brother and I, arrived in Halifax in Feb. 16, 1957. We sailed on the MV Britannic from Liverpool, having arrived there from a refugee camp in Austria. We had escaped from Hungary in Dec. 1956, following the unsuccessful revolution there. My first feelings …
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Families 1956 I arrived on a very cold day in January 1957 with my wife and son Richard born on the Boat "Venezuela." We were Hungarian refugees and as our son was born on the boat, there was a lot of hullabaloo about our arrival. The Halifax TV and Newspapers featured this event and until our baby …
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Families 1956 We huddled each night around our radios giving us the news from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, weighing many tons, tumble to the ground. Political prisoners were freed from jails. As the army troops moved in the fighting escalated. Each night we had our clothes …
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Single Men and Women To my best recollection the name of the steamship that tied up in Halifax Harbor on January 17th, 1948, was the General Stuart Heintzelman. She was a merchant vessel. She sailed out of Bremerhaven, Germany, the voyage lasting eleven days, many of which were violently stormy. …
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Single Men and Women My name is STEVEN (ISTVAN) ERDOS I was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a Jew, I went through the war- years in Hungary, and after the war, when the Russians occupied Hungary, I decided to escape. Crossing borders at night and dodging border guards with machine guns was an ordeal, …
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During the Pier 21 years (1928-1971) Dutch immigrants were the fifth largest ethnic group to arrive in Canada. In the pre Second World War years most Dutch immigrants settled in Ontario (15,000 between 1918 and 1939). They trickled in through the depression (3,200) but immigration largely halted …