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… Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: September 29, 1929 Age on Arrival: 17 My grandfather left Poland and arrived in Canada in Halifax at the age of 17. I have been told by my father that he soon left Halifax for Montreal and then made his way …
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… a coke machine and as a result of drinking too much coke, I lost all my teeth and became very sick resulting in having to break my work contract. I then went to Toronto and worked as a mason for …
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… Families 1956 My parents and my brother (age 4) and I (age 6) arrived at Pier 21 after a 9-day …
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… My parents and my brother (age 4) and I (age 6) arrived at Pier 21 after a 9 day …
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… on December 23rd, 1911. I arrived in Canada at Pier 21 on July 15th, 1930 aboard the SS Westernland from Southampton, England as an … County, I started a barber shop in Brookfield in July 1935. I met my wife and was married on Friday, February 13th, 1942. She was born in Brookfield, NS on January 8, 1920. I joined …
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… As a young man of 19 years, I left my hometown of Schönkirchen, Germany (near the Baltic port of Kiel) on July 15, 1951, along with my best buddy, Adolf Timm, after finishing our carpentry …
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… Gerard Van Kessel arrived in Canada with his family in 1951. “…two of my brothers had developed a contagious disease on board, I think it was … play a little bit, everything's fine. It didn't seem extraordinary to me at all on what I do remember is the matron. “I do recall her taking us out for walks on the …
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… of turning her previously created poem, Kmɨtkinu (“our homeland” in Mi’kmaw) which weaves together Mi’kmaw history, with calls for non-Indigenous peoples to listen, learn … collaboration between shalan and Mocean Dance. The artist explained, “The new movement work, Dancing Kmɨtkinu, explores and embodies the …
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… Pecile was born in September of 1927, in Fagagna, a small town in the Friuli- Venezia-Giulia region, in northeast Italy. He is the second of four children and the eldest son of Fabio Pecile and …
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… In 1958, my mother Emilia (nee Greco), who had not been past a 20km radius of … Adriana aged 2 and Maria aged 4, across the ocean to be reunited with my father (Ernesto) who had arrived a year earlier in Toronto. Not … the lives of many others who still hold her in high regard. Emilia De Francesco’s passport photo Taken shortly before Emilia left Italy …