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  • The Harry Warner Humphrys Family
    The Harry Warner Humphrys Family …
  • Nina E. Pepperell Hunter
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  • Claude Huntley
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  • Robert Hutchings
    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 …
  • Sarah MacLean Hutt
    Sarah MacLean Hutt …
  • Margaret Chase Huxford
    Margaret Chase Huxford On September 3rd I was in Times Square, New York. I saw the declaration of war spelt out on the moving letters on the top of the clock. I should have been overwhelmed with dread at the news and perhaps taken the next train home. But this was the trip of a lifetime, my first …
  • Cornelia Maria van Wyk Heystee
    Born in Kortenhoef on December 12, 1929 to Cornelia Maria van Wijk-Goes and Johanes Gerardes van Wijk, and the youngest of seven children. On October 29, 1952 and at age 23 departed from The Netherlands at Rotterdam. Arrived on November 6, 1952 at Pier 21 in Halifax after a crossing aboard the …
  • William Henry Heystee
    Born in Amsterdam on August 8, 1927 to Wihelmina Heijstee - van der Heijden and Richardes Heijstee, the middle child in a family of seven children. Always the adventurer and looking for a place to escape from poor economic conditions of post-war Netherlands, William decided to emigrate to Canada. …
  • Francis Hickey
    Francis Hickey …
  • Guy, Winnie Luke, Kathleen Hierlihy
    Kathleen Hierlihy's travel document (1945) Kathleen Hierlihy's travel document (1945) Kathleen Hierlihy's Berthing card Kathleen Hierlihy's Immigration ID Card (1946) Kathleen Hierlihy's Immigration ID Card …

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