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  • Stories - Netherlands
    Stories in Dutch Dad's Story Dad's Story (English) Children's Stories AE Didi Murphy Willem Kreeft Josephine Keyzer Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith Lina Douwasma Jack de Vries Peter van der Horden Connie A.H. Uyterlinde Family Stories Toon and Trees Maas Johannes Kreeft and Elizabeth Kreeft-Meijers …
  • Collection Policy
    … Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection Policy The … Collection Policy guides collection management practices at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (the Museum). As stewards of … to local, national and global publics. The Museum recognizes that we cannot tell the comprehensive story of Canadian immigration history …
  • Sape and Aaltje Post and Children
    … Country of Origin: The Netherlands Ship Name: Volendam Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date … It was July 11th, 1951 when Sape (Sam) and Aaltje (Elly) Post boarded the Volendam in Rotterdam with four children in tow. Kees (Keith) … farm in Nestleton where we slept in an attic on straw. Within a day or two the family Rienstra arrived with 11 children, so definitely …
  • Mirdza Grikis Dambergs
    … warmly received. Madame Dambergs was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal as a recognition by Canada for her contribution … The Dambergs family arrived in Halifax through Pier 21 on Valentine's Day after a rough sea voyage across the Atlantic. The weather in … skill as teacher and performer. Mirdza was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Gold Medal for her outstanding and exemplary contributions …
  • Maria Rosaria Pagano
    … and wanted to go exploring about the ship. It was difficult keeping an eye on him while I was sick. Fortunately, there was an older boy from my hometown who was also on the boat. He, his mother and sisters were going to Montreal to join his father, so I had him look after my son and they would chum around the ship together, otherwise I would not let him leave our …
  • Recommended Resources
    … and Michael Vickers, “100 years of Immigration in Canada”, as in Canadian Social Trends , Statistics Canada: Catalogue No. 11-008, Autumn … Press, 1999. Gabaccia, Donna R. and Franca Iacovetta. Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World . Toronto: … of War: The Battle for Italy, 1943 – 1945 . Harney, Nicholas De Maria. Eh, Paesan!: Being Italian in Toronto . Toronto: University of Toronto …
  • LCpl William A. Fuller
    … LCpl William A. Fuller …
  • Amabile and Adriana Bortolotti
    … Rough crossing the Atlantic and a 2 day train ride to rejoin father. …
  • Incemore
    … ship photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …
  • Munchen
    … ship photograph, be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). …

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