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… the voyage over, we encountered a severe storm. I only remember that my brother Batholemeus was the only one who was sick. The men and women …
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… March 8 to May 29, 2023 A "Community Presents" exhibition. On April 1, 1873, the …
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Walter Scott Browne …
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… 1951 Age on Arrival: 5 Travelled by train to Smithville, Ontario for my father to work on a dairy farm in Cayuga, Ontario. Moved to St …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal Ship Name: SS Homeland Port of Entry: Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of Arrival: 1954 Age on Arrival: 27 … Ernesto Furtado Moniz …
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… Jozeph entered Canada through Pier 21 in Halifax, in May, 1953. He came on the Waterman. He began writing to Mary …
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… 3 years before marriage. We also had a son in England. After the war, my husband stayed behind in England to work on the clubs that had been … for his home in March of 1947. So he put in about 7 years with the army. AS an engineer he served in Europe, Holland, Belgium and Germany …
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… of his languages. Michael left Denmark with his family and arrived in Canada in late June of 1951 while the epidemic was raging. Not long … he contracted it. “The summer of ’51 was devastating,” Michael wrote. “Canada had not experienced what it was like to live through a … I lost facility for both mother tongues, Danish and Russian. Much of my childhood memories became blurred or lost during that time.” Michael …
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… My husband Langille Emerson Hopkins, was born in Clarks Harbour, Nova Scotia July 25, 1920. He enlisted in the army in 1939 at the age of 19. He was one of the original members of the …
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… on to the waiting trains. I arrived in Toronto and hardly recognized my new husband - he had gained so much weight! We celebrated 61 years …