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… I stood at the window today looking across a field of sweet corn. So many years have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, … to be at a dance, but I was! Ed (Jack Mills) was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I …
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… bombing target - she stayed with her cousin Frankie’s family). It just so happened that my father, Earl Weston Wallace, along with several of … for sugar, etc so my grandmother could make the cake. Mother had to visit the vicar at St. Stephen’s to get permission to marry a Baptist - … In June, 1945, he was sent back to Canada to train for battle in the Far East, without Mother because by then she was pregnant with me and …
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… to Montreal in 1952, Uncle Anthony Mandato said to Uncle Giuseppe “come to live in Windsor, so it will be easier for me to visit you”. One year later Giuseppe sent proxy for his wife and … seen for over 35 years and her son Uncle Anthony she hadn’t seen for 26 years with the wife Sarah and children all from Cleveland, Ohio. Of …
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… night. We spent our two days honeymoon at the White Hart Hotel, in Sonning-on-Thames. Bill crossed to France on D+13 and we were apart for … his 10 days leave, in April 1945, we made arrangements for me to come to Canada. We felt if we waited until after the war, my departure … swells. We were not allowed on one side of the ship in case we were washed overboard. Staff wet the tablecloths and put up the table ledges …
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… He worked later at General Electric, Union Carbide and later for 26 years at de Havilland, Mc Donnell Douglas (later Boeing Canada). He … by a historian Waldemar Handke. He was a member of the Board and Vice president of Polish Combatants Association Branch 20 and for 6 years, Vice President of media relations for Canadian Polish Congress Head …
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… The Otto Froese Family My son Robert and his wife Cindy attended a convention in Halifax in 2000. … day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in Canada. My husband and children totally surprised me by having my … Westfalen, West Germany, located us. Her father Gustaf Andres came to visit. He entered the courtyard where children were playing, and asked …
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… at age three, my parents once again gave thanks to the arrival of a son, Arsene Heyneman, my one and only sibling I would ever have. … were now a country under occupation which we would endure for the next four years. As mayor and a very influential business man in the region, … heard soldiers approaching and then the cellar door swung open and a voice called down, in what I now know to be English, asking "is there …
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… being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my … were complete and I could leave Europe to start my new life in Canada. The United States, first choice for all of my fellow refugees, … been fortunate to have a high tolerance for motion sickness, but even so, on at least one occasion, I came close to a true "mal de mer". By …
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… that medical and physical requirements of the Immigration Act were “[f]or the protection of residents of Canada, and to ensure that …
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… history. A gift in your Will preserves Canada’s immigration stories, forever. Here are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering … of Italian immigrants who came to Canada through Pier 21 in the 1950s, visited us in 2013 and reconnected with the experiences of her parents …