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The Immigration Story of Tarcisio Filippelli (Italian Immigrant) TARCISIO'S HISTORY of a JOURNEY I was actually born on December 31st, 1953, but my birth certificate reads January 1st, 1954, in Mendicino in the province of Cosenza, Italia. While searching for a better life for his family, my …
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Alumni Type: Landed Immigrant Date of Arrival: October 26, 1957 Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia … Maria Teresa Cartaginese …
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It was the summer of '51 and I had barely turned fifteen. After a number of months in the I.R.O. ( International Refugees Organization ) camp at Bagnoli, near Naples, Italy, we had reached Bremerhaven, our final destination prior to our departure for Canada. CANADA? The name Canada meant absolutely …
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Captain Huxford pictured on his wedding day with wife, Margaret Huxford … Captain C.P.H.E. Huxford …
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Flight Lieutenant Orland Ross Down (1922-2009) The late Orland Ross Down passed through Pier 21 four times between 1941 and 1945. He was an eighteen year old young man from Charlottetown who joined the RCAF in 1940, trained in Canada as a wireless-operator/air-gunner and left for overseas from …
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Cecil in Military Uniform Cecil in Military Uniform Cecil in Military Uniform Portrait as a Young Man Portrait as an Older Man … LCpl Cecil Leroy Goreham …
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Hugh Archibald MacRae was born in Bayfield, Westmorland County, New Brunswick on March 21st, 1912, the youngest son of Norman and Annie (Grant) MacRae. Hugh enlisted in the No. 71 Canadian Army (B) Training Centre, the Canadian Army (Active) at Edmundston, N.B. on the 8th day of October, 1942. He …
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Leland M. Pratt of Belmont left Halifax from Pier 21 aboard the Andes of Britain in May of 1941, aged 17. On board ship Lee was in charge of two grenade guns. Lee he was in the Army Provost Corps [police service] when he met his future wife, Audrey Smith , a young woman from England. Previously Lee …