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I left my hometown of Lee on Solent on the 20th of March bound for Canada on the ship Scythia. My family was in Lee on Solent throughout the Second World War, my father being an air gunner navigator in the R A F. I met some wonderful people while crossing the Atlantic, two of which I am very close …
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Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Saturnia Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: October 21, 1958 Age on Arrival: 25 My mother left Italy to marry the love of her life Romeo Macorig. Dad (Romeo) arrived in Canada/Halifax/Pier 21 on August 31, 1954 on the ship Conte …
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I was born Perla Brill in Minsk, Russia, October 19, 1905. I was the second youngest in a family of three brothers and one sister. My oldest brother, David, went to New York in 1914, my second brother drowned, the third was killed in the Russian army and my little sister died at a young age of …
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I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army buddy. Trying for a maturity I didn't yet possess, I pretended I was older than my seventeen years. Much to his surprise I hadn't aged any when he returned two years later …
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Dedicated with all love, pride and gratitude possible from his wife Jean E. MacPherson, Antigonish, NS, their ten children and six grand-children, as well as his sisters, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Troy, C.B., NS, Mamie MacIsaac, Randoph, MA, USA and their families. … P/O Joseph Daniel …
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Olive Helen (Briggs) Ripley was born in Orpington, Kent, England on July 18, 1923. Her parents were Reginald and Lillian Briggs. She has a younger sister, Diana Dilley, still living in England. In 1944, Olive met a Canadian soldier stationed overseas in Kent waiting to go to France during WWII. In …
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but by in rising every time we fall. Confucius The Story of My Life Om Sharma, June 2, 2008 I was born in Sillanwali, Sargodha in West Punjab, India. My birthplace became part of Pakistan, so at the age of 10, I had to move with my family to the newly …
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A Brief History of Art Cannon and his Family Art was born in Moose Jaw in December 1922, the third child of Charles and Lucy Cannon. He attended St. Marks School and the Marquis Public School. Art has lived most of his life in the Marquis Community except for three years during the war. After …
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Pictured: Henry's picture of his wife Ruby Leeson Kaspard that he kept in his pocket when he landed on Juno Beach - D-Day When one of Henry's friends, John K. McGuire, was killed on October 5, 1944 fighting in Holland, he wrote a condolence letter to his family. 60 years later, John McGuire's …
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Pte. Herman Wallace Murray Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry Born: Truro, NS, May 2, 1923 Died: Calgary, AB, March 14, 1979 aged 55 years Son of Gordon Murray, North River, Colchester County and Alma Murray, Ashcroft, Alberta Raised in North River, Colchester County and attended school …