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  • Charles and Jeannette Dwyer
    Alumni Type: WWII Veteran / War Bride Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: March 1952 Dwyer with Officer Leo Campbell at Pier 21 in March 1952 Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer wedding at East Bourne …
  • Walter and Joyce Taylor, son Cliff
    Walter and Joyce Taylor, son Cliff …
  • Achille Ginevra Rinaldo Aldo Carinci
    … Italy Ship Name: Castel Felice Date of Arrival: May 12, 1956 My father has forever engrained these dates in his mind and every year, early May he gets nostalgic and … May 12, 1956 the Castel Felice arrives in Canada. It will take two days on a train before my father finds his roots in Toronto, Ontario. …
  • Elsie Kennedy and Lynda
    … Lynda was two months old when we arrived, courtesy of the Canadian Government on the ship called Empire Brent; this ship had … time I first stepped on the train at Halifax Pier until the present day. I still remember that wonderful train journey through Nova Scotia, …
  • Andrea Nicolosi
    Andrea Nicolosi and Maria Soccorsa Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 [DI2013.1807.1a]. English Translation : NICOLOSI, ANDREA Born on February 28, 1936 in Castellamare del Golfo (Trapani) Port of departure : PALERMO Ship : SATURNIA Port of arrival: HALIFAX Destination in Canada : …
  • Patricia Campbell Edwards
    … Alumni Type: War Bride Ship: Ile de France Date of Arrival: October, 1944 Immigration ID Travel ID (1) …
  • Private Harker F. Coutts
    … Empire John Harker Francis Coutts was born on Barrie Island, off of the Manitoulin Island north shore Sept 1899 in northern Ontario, the oldest child in a farming family. He enlisted in Gore Bay on the last day of 1915 at 16 yrs. of age. …
  • Thy Anne Chu Quang
    … with the French Solidarity Priority Fund and the French Agency for Development. Return to Soft Landing Soft Landing is a project curated … environmentalism, science, and community activism. The project is funded by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 …
  • we would be freer (بنكون اكتر احرار)
    … taste and bright colour, the sumac plant is used as a medicine, spice, dye, and more. Weaving together the voices of two women – one from the …
  • Caranguejeira Pioneers
    … Six young men from a village in Portugal called Caranguejeira decided to embark to a distant and unknown land called Canada with the … except working on the fields for family survival. They were brave to come especially when they first arrived and could not understand anyone … they moved around to better jobs and gradually for a better life to a point that they decided that living in Canada was going to be their …

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