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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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… Carinthia arriving in Halifax on March 19. Our family was comprised of my wife Joan, our daughter Judith and expecting our son Jeffery. The crossing … could see no future for our family. When I left the U.K. at the age of 26 I had the dubious distinction of never having paid any income tax, … Keith and Joan Baldwin, daughter Judi …
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… Date of Arrival: November 30, 1957 Age on Arrival: 7 Dad’s plan was to come work for a couple of years in Canada and then return to Italy. He met my mother and remained in Canada. My mother came to Canada with her …
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… in Canada in June of 1950. “Soon after Labour Day, school started for John and Roger,” Jennifer wrote. “It was very strange in many ways, but … “Alas, however, they didn’t go for more than a week before Martin & John developed unusual coughs which we realized with horror was … “I found this a little hard to bear as I had never been one to let my children loose with infectious diseases. However, I reasoned, how …
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… and think about these challenging days. “It must have been tough for my mother and aunt but my memories are of having a wonderful time,” Alan wrote. “We had tricycles with fixed wheels (the pedals drove the wheels directly without a free-wheeling chain) so …
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… love to provide his 4 ring black doeskin uniform that I still have in my possession, if you would like to create a special site. Also have a … stained from a German on a U-boat that they captured off of Iceland (the story was more like: the Germans had surfaced with engine trouble … in the wardroom on shore when the word came in that they had a chance to take the Germans captive. They scrambled on some vessel and …
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Life in Canada CMIP 21 · Reactions to a War Resister Time 0:00:30 Transcript We had a lot of support in Canada. We also had people—when I run into people—I've never been discriminated against in terms of jobs or public service, but I've certainly run into people who did not approve of my leaving …
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Becoming a Refugee Time 1:00 Transcript To me, like, because we are living such —I think we have—we don’t even understand what is hope, you know. What is, like, hoping to be somebody. Or hoping to become someone. Like, we don’t even have—and I was never think about hoping to become something, you …
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… days in Canada under quarantine. He was born in Estonia in 1941 during the first Soviet occupation. He and his mother fled to Germany in 1944, … They were fortunate to be accepted to immigrate to Canada to join his future stepfather who was already here as a contract farm … knew what I had? “When I came to a few days later, I discovered that my mother was locked up in another section of the building. “I spoke …
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… Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: August 28, 1928 Age of Arrival: 5 The Kiperczuks (mother Darja, father Lukjan, sisters Matrona and … and the details of their journey were lost to time. Nazary Kiperczuk (my grandfather) was five-years-old when he arrived in Canada. He never …