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Sapper Lorenzo Bezeau …
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My father, Frank Vermeulen, worked as a veterinarian and farmer in Holland. He lost his livestock two years in succession due to Foot and Mouth Disease. He decided to try something to new, and heard that things were much better in Canada. He immigrated to Canada in March of 1927. My parents were …
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The Early Years Leonard Palmer was born on September 19, 1913 in England. He was adopted by Maud Florence and David Livingstone Palmer and was named after Leonard Hodgkinson, Senior 4 th Engineer on the Titanic. He grew up in Hove, Sussex in southern England in a “Victorian” household. His mother …
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In Loving Memory of: John Oscar Moller Andersen So now what's left to be said ? Only three things: Thank You, Good Luck, and Goodbye. J.O.M.A. 1949-2012 History: Born in Copenhagen Denmark on April 22, 1949, John Oscar was the first born child of Margaret and Vagn Moller Andersen. The family …
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Melitta and Alfred Starke - 1960 Starke Family - 1977 Melitta Starke and Grandchildren - 2002 Melitta Kaefer Starke - 1953 Melitta Starke and Grandchildren 2011 … Alfred and Melitta …
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John, Mary and Nancy arrived in Canada on December 7, 1951 on the Veendam, landing in Halifax at Pier 21. Coming to Canada to better his life with his young family, John worked as a mechanic designing a cooling machine that is still in use today. His passion was iron work, from which he made candle …
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On January 6, 1954, my husband Franco and I left our home in San Lorenzo de Arzene with our two little girls during a terrible snowstorm. Fulvia was two and a half and Liviana celebrated her five month birthday when we arrived in Canada. We travelled by train to Venice where we had to transfer to …
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Immigration Story of Trijn Steenbergen Lopers Frits Lopers and Trijn Steenbergen were 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 of 11 children of Hendrik and Hendrikje Lopers, who operated an …