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  • Order-in-Council PC 1931-695
    … Order-in-Council PC 1931-695 …
  • Douwe and Hinke Neef and Family
    … their four children Hans (Hank), age 12, Maria Hinke, age 11, Aaltje (Alice), age 9 and Anna Maria, age 2, left Rotterdam, the Netherlands on … but by the end of the film they were the only ones left as everyone else had gone to their cabin seasick. The only one of the family who … 60 to 80 hours per week (except Sundays), every week of every year for 26 years. Since the sponsors for the family were situated in both …
  • Edith Metcalfe Wallace
    … Edith Metcalfe Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child … boy, she said. In late November 1944 Mother travelled to Richmond (in Yorkshire) to attend a friend’s wedding. She had been sent to …
  • Order-in- Council PC 1931-695, 1931
    … Includes: Order-in-Council PC 1923-183 (31 January 1923), Order-in-Council PC 1930-1957 (14 August 1930) With the passage of Order-in-Council PC … restrictive policies introduced by the governor-in-council (i.e. federal cabinet) following the First World War. The expansive … Order-in- Council PC 1931-695, 1931 …
  • Italian Culture and Traditions
    … and volleyball are also enjoyed. In areas of Italy, where the Americans stayed during the Second World War, there is a strong, although … of Sicily is the flute. Opera is a well-known form of music to come out of Italy beginning as early as the 16 th century in Venice. … tarantella alone. Holidays Italy’s state holidays include New Years Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day (May 1) and Christmas Day and a list of …
  • The Rosalind Roberts Family
    … Roberts (Davies) was born December 27, 1893 in Oswestry, England, the daughter of Edward and Sarah Davies (Lewis) who was a tailor by … farm where Rosalind's brother George Davies picked them up the next day. The family then stayed with George for about one year. During the … The Rosalind Roberts Family …
  • Sowada Lydia Dorothea Sieg Melanie
    … Lydia was born in White Russia. As a young girl, she worked as a domestic and eventually ended up in Chorzow. She married … of German descent, spoke seven languages, and never went to school a day in her life. Until the invasion, the children spoke German and … in Vancouver until it shut down. He did practice his trade in Northern BC but spent most of his working life in the mechanical workings of the …
  • Bombardier John Hamilton Glawson
    … John Hamilton Glawson 26 May 1923 – 2 August 2003 Member of Hartney Branch #26 & Brandon … on the CN railway between Hartney and Elgin. Jack was the son of Hailey Glawson (1888 – 1932) who was born in Spry Bay, Nova Scotia and … (born in 1931). During the depression, the family moved to a “soddy” (a small home constructed with sod blocks, twigs, thin branches and …
  • Frits and Trijn Lopers
    … born and grew up in Koekange, a small town not far from Meppel in Drenthe, an eastern province of Holland. Frits was born in 1918, the fourth … Zwaantje Steenbergen, who owned a dairy farm. By the time World War II ended, Frits and Trijn had two sons. They lived with Frits’s parents … house for us. Two families from our village Koekange, (B. Flinkert and A. Rumph) were already in that area and they helped make the …
  • Immigration Act, 1976
    … were recognized: independent immigrants selected on the basis of the points system; a family class which included the immediate family …

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