• Why isn’t it called “Japantown”?
    … Canada (2023). Source: Library and Archives Canada/RG18, vol. 3567, file c315-36-3. Page 119/136 Many Canadian cities have a Chinatown. There … owned by Chinese and Japanese Canadians were smashed. Still, the community continued to deepen its roots, not only in Vancouver but … Property opens in Vancouver. Within weeks, the Canadian government passes a law to remove Japanese Canadians from a 160 km “protection …
  • Quinto Odorizzi and Rita Leonardi
    … In 1955 Quinto Odorizzi boarded the ship Queen Frederica in Naples Italy. After sailing for 8 days he … a visit. This is when he met Rita Leonardi. Rita was also from Tuenno, she grew up in a house not far from Quinto's. She had a very large …
  • Bartholomeus and Hendrika Boxem
    … After 2 years of waiting and preparation, my parents had packed their remaining belongings, 2 small children and $60.00 Cdn cash, and … asked for my mother's hand in marriage. He was a police officer in the city of Haarlem which was considered a respectable career. In his … Bartholomeus and Hendrika Boxem …
  • Derk and Dina Jebbink
    … 1, 1952 a young engineer and his wife, a nurse, disembarked from "The Ryndam" to enter Pier 21 in Halifax. Derk and Dina Jebbink nee … who had started their own business upon their arrival in Canada. She had come to know them through the immigration assistance group. Upon return …
  • Bronislawa Kowalewski and Parents
    … at 17 years of age, Bronislawa Kowalewski arrived at Pier 21 with her father (Bronislaw Kowalewski) and her mother (Konstancja Kowalewski, nee Lojko). Originally from Poland, …
  • Alma Meier and
    … 40 – Alma; 12 – Eugenie; 10 – Ruth; 6 - Anna In honour of our late mother Alma (Meier) Wendland, who had the courage to start a new life after the war, by bringing her three daughters on her own to Canada in 1949. …
  • Francisca Stil Kiss
    … Groote Beer and arrived in Halifax on February 23, 1954. From Halifax, she travelled to Kitchener, Ontario to live with her sister (a war bride) and her brother-in-law. She was married on …
  • Olga Nikolajevich
    … to transport troops during the Second World War and immigrants after. Her family consisted of mom, dad and 2 daughters. They did not speak … of Yugoslavia to communism from a monarchy displaced and disposed her family. …
  • Kay Smyk Kowalchuk
    … Kateryna Smyk, mother, was forcibly relocated by Germany from Turje, Ukraine. After attending a church service, she was herded into a truck and taken to Germany to work as a forced …
  • Ludvik Pahulje and Danica Petric
    … at the age of 31 years. Danica Pahulje (nee Petric), accompanied by her parents and sister, left her home country of Slovenia, stayed several years in Austria, then in …