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  • Ole Jorgensen
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  • Ina van Teunenbroek
    … earning a B.S. in Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture with a major in Botany in 1965. During her undergraduate years Ina worked part …
  • Helena Lengacher
    … Belgium to the proud parents of Rene Heyneman and Celina De Meyer. Not long after, at age three, my parents once again gave thanks … a very privileged life and remembered having servants to take care of all the daily household tasks. At age 11, my father sold the farm and … a house right in the heart of Waterland-Ouderman. My father was the Mayor of the town and owned the local brewery which supplied beer to …
  • Jean Allison Bock
    … Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army … We also made friends with six Dutch girls and on Friday afternoon we all went out together. On Friday night there was a Cinerama show in the … Deck, next to the Purser's cabin, in B Cabin. I share this with twelve more girls. The beds are wonderful and soft and everything is very …
  • Ole Didrik Falkeisen
    … Ole Didrik Falkeisen …
  • Theodore and Maria Jacobs
    … Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) saw the … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the … course hosted by a Catholic group where Theo and Maria were given all of the information they needed to emigrate – particularly …
  • Lieutenant Ryszard Z.S. Paudyn
    … the East and one from the West. Richard was transported by train, normally used for transporting animals, to Uchta Siberia (Trockoje region). … Army switched sides to fight alongside France and England and needed more soldiers to fight Hitler. The Sikorski-Majski pact was signed … He worked later at General Electric, Union Carbide and later for 26 years at de Havilland, Mc Donnell Douglas (later Boeing Canada). He …
  • “We Wanted to Come to Canada”: Pier 21 and the Arrival of Polish Orphans
    … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT … her parents had died in Siberia, she and her compatriots “…wanted to come to Canada, we do not want to go back to Poland.” [13] Meanwhile, a … water if he worked the whole day. When asked about what the young newcomer thought of Poland, he replied, “we like our country very much but …
  • Edith Metcalfe Wallace
    … Edith Metcalfe Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in … 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 - … travel with a baby under 6 months, so it was a year later, around July 26/27 1946 that the three of us reunited in Dad's boyhood home on 217 …
  • Who is the Little Boy in this Picture?
    … Almost half a million Canadian military personnel departed from Pier 21 … Canada after World War II. A young Dave Campbell, with his mother, welcomes Canadian troops home at Pier 21 in 1945. Credit: Lieut. Richard …

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