• J. Hans Kluge
    … Ship Name: Vulcania Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: December 24, 1951 I arrived at Pier 21 on December 24, 1951 on Italia Liner "Vulcania" from Lofer, Austria via … , on April 4, 1956. On the arrival I was asked if I could not sign my name to put an X on the line. At the railway-stop at Causapscal I …
  • Private Clarence Melville Wright
    … I got married October 11th to Joan E. Wright who received notice to sail to Canada on the Queen Mary in June 1946. We met in Moncton and I introduced her to my family. We had to live with them until we found a place of our own. …
  • Maria and Frank D'Ambrosio
    … It was winter 1958 and my husband Frank, myself and our 1½ year old daughter, Pierina, arrived in Halifax at … to celebrate 50 years of marriage, and I think of how far we have come since then and how we have provided our family with a better life. …
  • Teunis Jan Ploeg
    … from Holland aboard the Ryndam on Dec. 6, 1954 just three weeks before my 18th birthday. The voyage was quite uneventful until three days out … Teunis Jan Ploeg …
  • Henry Salomon Katina
    … to Liberty and Freedom, I am grateful to the Canadians for taking me in. …
  • Johannes, Grietje, Anna, Hans
    … 1951 Age on Arrival: 5 Travelled by train to Smithville, Ontario for my father to work on a dairy farm in Cayuga, Ontario. Moved to St … Nova Scotia in 1985. I still live in Nova Scotia where I plan to stay. John Slor The Sloren Hollande family …
  • Elsie Kennedy and Lynda
    … in Sidney, on Vancouver Island. Canada has been a wonderful place to me, from the time I first stepped on the train at Halifax Pier until …
  • Ernesto Furtado Moniz
    … Country of Origin: Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal Ship Name: SS Homeland Port of Entry: Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of Arrival: 1954 Age on …
  • Martin, Katherine Seagull
    … My father, Martin Seagull arrived in Halifax aboard the Baltic American ship Estonia, on March 28th,1926. A duty of the processing Immigration Officer was to … wife Katherine, and three young sons, Michael age 7, Eugene age 5, and John age 2, to Canada aboard the Baltic American ship Lithuania, …
  • Walter H. Cooper
    … 3 years before marriage. We also had a son in England. After the war, my husband stayed behind in England to work on the clubs that had been … for his home in March of 1947. So he put in about 7 years with the army. AS an engineer he served in Europe, Holland, Belgium and Germany …