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  • Warrant Officer Jack E. Mills
    … supposed to be at a dance, but I was! Ed was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in … Indian Line of ships in 1936. What a shock to an English War Bride to come from a home that was planned and built by my father, to a terrace …
  • John Hughes
    … in Middleton. British troops who were housed at Camp Aldershot would come to Middleton and other valley towns as guests of the local people. … members completed my C.O.R.B. experience. Soon there was a big "welcome home" party for me where I met other relatives and former friends. …
  • Port of Entry, Process and Gatekeepers – A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec during the Great Depression
    … century onwards, Quebec City’s migrating local populace and incoming European immigrants had a major impact on the development of the … Five Leading National Ports,” Urban History Review 10.3 (1982): 26. A sizable amount of literature exists on the Port of Quebec, see … Volume 3 (Ottawa: King’s Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1947), 2644. …
  • Lieutenant Ryszard Z.S. Paudyn
    … He worked later at General Electric, Union Carbide and later for 26 years at de Havilland, Mc Donnell Douglas (later Boeing Canada). He …
  • LACW Elsie F. Mills
    … 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 … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in … Indian Line of ships in 1936. What a shock to an English War Bride to come from a home that was planned and built by my father, to a terrace …
  • Long Journeys: The First Tibetans in Canada
    … the quality of caring about the collective welfare, a person who is community-minded. The choice of this expression as a project name is a tribute to the first wave of Tibetans, founding members of today’s community in Canada, who embodied that spirit and shared it with their … [21.04.14NRKMTK] Gelek Gyathong, interviewed by Sonam Nylosang [21.05.26GG] Nyingko Tsering, interviewed by Jigme Tsering [21.00.00NT] …
  • Margaret S. Kydd
    … 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 … I enjoyed 58 wonderful years together, before his passing on August 26, 2002. Although I missed my family and friends in England, I … and friends. I was happy to visit England but Canada had indeed become my home. Bill and I moved our family to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … to my father, "do not say anything, it’s the German’s, they have come back to kill us!" Both my father and I laid motionless as a … shelves. The soldier said he was with the Canadian military and had come to save us. I scoffed and told my father in Flemish not to say … out to be Canadian and he, along with many other soldiers, did in fact come to liberate us. Now our fate seemed to take a turn for the better. …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut
    … Sweden in December 1948, illustrated that admitting and processing newcomers to Canada remained largely influenced by several factors … (hereafter LAC), Department of Citizenship and Immigration fonds, RG 26, vol. 143, file 3-40-21 “Statistics Ten Years Post-War Immigration,” … Volume 3 (Ottawa: King’s Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1947), 2646. Knowles, Forging Our Legacy , 68. Shephard, 341. Trudy …

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