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… PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, … Driving Canada: A Collaborative Oral History Project …
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… Canada would have lost Margarita Bruehler nee Sosnowsky to Paraguay if her brother hadn’t come down with the chickenpox. Margarita’s early childhood memories are … unimagined riches: canned food, clothing, coffee, even chocolate. Via the Red Cross my mother was able to locate an aunt living in … How a Chicken Pox Quarantine Brought one Family to Canada …
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… after my daughter. In 1986 I got my papers. I sponsored my daughter to come to Canada. But my sister didn’t want to give her to me. …
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… John Hamilton Glawson 26 May 1923 – 2 August 2003 Member of Hartney Branch #26 & Brandon … Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corp Canadian Army Serving in: Canada, United Kingdom, Central Mediterranean Area, and Continental … was the son of Hailey Glawson (1888 – 1932) who was born in Spry Bay, Nova Scotia and Christina Forbes (née Caldwell, 1892 –1982) who was …
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… by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) “There is no Exclusion Act in the Dominion of Canada” “The doors which once were opened wide are now but … Deportation from Canada during the Great Depression …
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… THE DIARY OF A LITTLE FINNISH IMMIGRANT Dear Diary, The First Year in Canada July 11, 1951 I’m starting this diary today, because we’re leaving our home here in Kuopio, Finland, and going far away, to … Veke,Toini,Raili …
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… Wincenty was born on August 15, 1871 in the village of Biedrzychow, … Antoni, Frankciezek, Wladyslaw, Stefka, Boleslaw, and Julian. We understand that Wincenty made two trips to the USA before 1918. He … him her maiden name Kurdziel, which he later changed to Kurdzer. One can only imagine how hard life must have been for her, not knowing if …
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… Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …
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… Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …
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… We were forced to leave Latvia in 1944 to escape the approaching … minute the tug started to tow us out of the harbour, seasickness set in. The men were separated from their families and required to do … found a small snapshot of my family at the railing of the ship two days before we docked in Halifax. I also discovered the ship was the …