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  • Hillegonda Bolding MacDonald
    My Story - Hilda MacDonald My name is Hilda MacDonald. I was born in 1925 in Beilen, in the northeastern province of Drenthe, Holland, which today is referred to as The Netherlands. My parents, Roelof Bolding and Aafje Bolding (nee: Meinen), gave me the name Hillegonda Albertha Bolding. I am also …
  • Nives Zuttioni
    In the summer of 1956, while working at her parent’s bar in the town of Fagagna in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of northeast Italy, a young man wearing light blue pants caught the attention of Nives Zuttioni. Little did she know that meeting this man would change the course of her life. That …
  • Edoardo Chiarvesio
    The year 2021 marks 110 years since my father’s uncle left his hometown of Fagagna, in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of northeast Italy, to settle in Canada. At 25 years of age, Edoardo Chiarvesio boarded the SS Chicago on March 19, 1911 in Le Havre, France. He arrived in New York City on March …
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