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… Philip as of 2001. The WALL OF HONOUR brick was purchased as a birthday present for Olive to commemorate her 78th birthday on July 18, 2001 by her family. Clockwise from top right - Olive in …
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… when she and Patrick were put into isolation with others. “We were a day and a half out to sea when a little girl got meningitis,” wrote … we made it work.” If the war brides as a group had a catch phrase I can’t think of anything better than “making it work”. “When we arrived … after a long week in quarantine they boarded the train and their new Canadian lives began. “We left the hospital and boarded the train to …
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… they’re important because John Langley was an Irish immigrant. He’d come to Canada just the year before. The ship Empress of Ireland … and we get this kind of life-sized sense of the fateful voyage that day in 1914. Return to our Empress of Ireland video gallery. → …
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Ivan Szalai arrived at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 23rd, 1967 on the T.S.S. Olympia, which he boarded in Haifa, Israel. He was a single man, 29 years old with two suitcases and $200 in his pocket. Ivan spoke neither English nor French and knew nobody in his chosen new country. From …
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A grade 3 class is enjoying one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions called Kids Celebrate! They are in their school uniforms. The exhibition focuses on 12 special times of the year. From Christmas to Diwali to Carnival, each is a day or a period of time celebrated by kids and families in Canada. …
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… Newcomers from cities across Canada created a two to five-minute video … was added: digital stories. Working with facilitators from Community Story Strategies, we offered digital storytelling workshops across Canada. Newcomers from ten cities in six provinces and one territory participated …
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… the Red Cross and other organizations) as far as Truro by car -- next day up through New Glasgow, Antigonish, and the ferry crossing at …
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… for Montreal leaving Tiny and the two girls in Holland. Within ten days of arriving in Calgary, Arie had three job offers. He was … based in Edmonton, Alberta. Once he was settled there and had rented a house, he sent for his wife and daughters. Tiny and the girls sailed … Following the immigration process, they boarded a train for a 3-4 day journey to Edmonton. Arie and Tiny Bor have lived in a variety of …
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My husband and I met on a blind date, not set up on our behalf but for my sister's friend who was not allowed to see her date alone. I don't think either of us was very taken but 5 years later we married and had 52 years of married bliss before he was taken from me. Pier 21 was especially good for …
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… married in a civil ceremony on Oosterhout on September 16, 1952. Two days later Mr and Mrs Mass boarded the Groote Beer in Rotterdam for Canada. Their eight days or so was rather eventful, as the newly married couple was … and talked the immigration official into letting him go out for the day to seek employment in Halifax. Within hours he had landed a …