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… and am proud to have dual citizenship. My parents made sacrifices to come to Canada and I am thankful. Return to Sault Ste. Marie …
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… political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … the tags link visitors to the building’s past, they are also a way to communicate through time to the future. A message might be read by … started his note: “Dear me in 2025,” pledging to work hard and then come back to find his letter in a year’s time. Another visitor, …
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… new baby, but my troubles were definitely not over. My inability to communicate made it all so difficult, and I was feeling lonely even … roots. My painful beginning became the inspiration for my lifelong commitment to language education, which I have been promoting for more …
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… Single Men and Women July 9, 1953 – Waterman My five day journey from Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the ship SS Waterman was smooth and without incident. The accommodation was that … Ontario. It was good that I did not understand too much English, but I can remember him using the term "S.O.B." directed at me. So I was …
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… itself been a trial. Under Nazi occupation, my father, Herman, had become involved in Resistance activities, a risk which was finally … Resistance Cross in 1982. The journey across the Atlantic lasted eight days over rough spring seas. With the exception of Harmen all of the … ship. Seeing the Groote Beer pull away from the dock, my mother cried. She had not chosen to come to Canada to be "put in jail." Five days …
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… he knew in Zaleszyczyki, Poland. It meant a rough but exciting 8 day voyage on the ship The Pilsudski with his mother and sister - … 4385 Clarke Street. It meant playing with the other immigrant kids on St. Urbain Street who were all poor, but didn’t know it. It meant being … What did Morris Ladenheim eventually learn about those who did not come to Canada? He learned of the murder of his grandparents by the …
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… The S.S. Marine Perch left Malta with 121 other Maltese immigrants bound … must have been from there that work on a Tobacco Farm was acquired in St. Thomas Ontario. Fred fondly remembers the older couple who took him … one of the first to emigrate from Malta to Canada much earlier in the 1920s). For a few years, they worked on her father's farm, cutting …
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… for me to be able to carry with me on my travels. Finally departure day arrived. My trunk had gone on ahead and I just had my one piece of … where we were going and again the volunteers were with us. Finally as daylight arrived we reached our destination. Then transferred onto the … The Ocean Liner Aquitania that was to be our home for the next seven days. What a wonderful surprise it was for me to find my husband …
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… II Medals Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp War Medal 1939-45 Defence Medal France and Germany Star Italy Star 1939-45 Star Date … France, Belgium, Holland and Germany Demobilization: January 22, 1946 (26 years, 7 months) In May of 1942 Private Kelly embarked from Pier 21 … Italy, Kelly witnessed a conflagration in the harbour. Earlier in the day a lone German plane had circled the site, it turned out to be a spy …