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Families October 11, 1953 – Veendam In 1952, Dutch citizens Arie and Christina (Tiny) Bor were living in Indonesia. Arie, a mining engineer, was employed in the oil business by Shell Oil Company. They had two young daughters, Karin, aged 6 and Ada, aged 4 years. At this time, Indonesians were …
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Families 1953 – Groote Beer When my parents decided to come to Canada in 1953, I was faced with a huge dilemma. I had become a career soldier in the Dutch Air force the year before and signed on for a minimum 5 years. Pappa told me that I was to come to Canada with them, otherwise he would not …
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Families April 9, 1954 – Groote Beer I was educated in The Netherlands (University Utrecht BSc 1951, geology and geophysics). There was no particular reason for me to leave the Netherlands. I had a good position at the National Research institute, was (am) married with one small daughter. However, …
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Families February 22, 1951 – Volendam Immigration is not something you get just up and do, you talk about it, think about it and talk about it again, you go to all kinds of bureaus for information. When it gets to be pretty serious you start praying a lot about it. The time comes that you only pray …
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Families September 26, 1956 – Skaubryn Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large family. The prospect of immigrating to a new county proved to be both exciting and frightening as well as a lot of work. At the time we had six children, all of whom were housed …
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Families March 1954 – Waterman My name is Johanna Schel. I left Rotterdam on March 2, 1954 with my husband, Johannes, whom was called Jan, and my three year old son also named Johannes but known as Jan Willem. I vividly recall boarding the S.S. Waterman. I can still see my mother standing between …
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Books and Articles Abucar, Mohamed H. “Italians.” People of the Maritimes . Four East, 1991. Acharya, Madhaui and Tom Yew. “Martin Makes Amends for ‘dark chapter in our History'.” Toronto Star , November 13, 2005: pA02. Boyd, Monica and Michael Vickers, “100 years of Immigration in Canada”, as in …
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This trunk is made possible by generous funding from Adrianus (Andy) Faas. The Faas family immigrated to Canada through Pier 21 on September 29 after a seven day journey from Rotterdam on the ship the Groote Beer (The Big Bear). Adrianus (now Andrew), his brothers Johannus (Joe), Gerardus (John), …
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Time 0:06:17 Transcript Narrator (N): At an early age, Giovanni knew that he wanted more from his life. He knew one day he would have to leave the only place he’d ever known. Giovanni Guglietti (GG): The biggest problem was that I, I was the oldest. And I was pushing like crazy. We had to get out …
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This trunk is made possible by generous funding from Tom Weisz With the generous support of Tom Weisz, in honour of his father Arthur Weisz, this resource trunk was designed to help students and researchers with projects on Hungarian Immigration to Canada. The trunk provides materials to supplement …