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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: The Netherlands Ship Name: SS Volendam Port of Entry: Halifax Date of … the country. In 1958 he purchased a fifty-acre farm in Innisfil, just south of Barrie, ON. He soon found that it was more profitable to sell …
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… My dad spoke very little of his family. Few facts are known to me, he lived in a village in Hungary close to the Romanian border, his home … siblings. He never mentioned his father, all I knew of his mother that she was very stern woman, a very religious Catholic. When he was nine …
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… 80s born Chinese boy. Because of the “one Child” policy, I was a “little emperor” in my family. I didn't need worry about anything, and I … any more. There is no mommy or daddy around me. I only had instant noodles as my meals for a month. Comparing to my hometown, life here was boring. I asked myself: Why am …
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… fell in love, and wed, after having only seen a picture of one another. Arriving in Canada in 1951 with only $15 in his pocket, Bobby … was attending the birth of her granddaughter when the letter arrived. She looked at the caring midwife who was delivering the baby and …
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… Single Men and Women June 6, 1952 – Waterman I well remember the day that I disembarked from the MS Waterman in Halifax NS on June 6, 1952 and passed through the now famous Pier 21 shed. The Customs and Immigration officials processed the 900 Dutch … well. The train was separated into a family section and a bachelors’ car up front, where we, that is some fifteen single males would open …
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… March 4 to June 24, 2026 A Community Presents exhibition created with the Canadian Romani … the first national exhibition about Roma , a distinct and diverse peoples and the largest ethnic minority throughout Europe, often called … Resilience on the Move: Roma People in Canada …
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… 0:02:41 Transcript In January 1945 my mother’s family, as Germans, fled Poland westward into Germany, trying to stay ahead of the advancing … to family still left behind how good life was saying ‘you should come!’. In 1950 my Mom and her family, having not much to look forward … by the Canadian Lutheran World Relief , including their ship’s passage and the train trip from Halifax to Kitchener, Ontario. Shortly …
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… fell in love, and wed, after having only seen a picture of one another. Arriving in Canada in 1951 with only $15 in his pocket, Bobby … was attending the birth of her granddaughter when the letter arrived. She looked at the caring midwife who was delivering the baby and …
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… this story on behalf of my late husband, Dr. William H. Holland. He was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands on January 4th, 1926 and was … 21 on September 25, 1952. He continued on to Kitchener, Ontario where he set up his medical practice. He served the Kitchener/Waterloo …
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… by train from Halifax to Ontario, to begin their new life, settling in South-western Ontario. After arriving in Canada seven more children … to provide opportunity for their children in a new country. We want to say thank you for choosing Canada. Their grandchildren dedicate this …