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… which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this year. The past significance has always been the reminder … old RCAF Air Gunner who lost his life over France on July 14th, 1944 while serving with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried … the communal cemetery in the small French community of Ancerville. I had been waiting for some time to write this story and could never find …
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… tune that went like this: “C’erà una casetta piccolina in Canada, con tanti pesciolini et tanti fiori di lilà, e tutte le ragazze che passavano di là, dicevono che bella la casetta in Canada”. This is how I thought of our home, a beautiful, loving, little house surrounded … of father figure. As a result, he was exempted from military duty. While only a year younger, uncle Romeo, a talented musician, was not so …
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… I stood at the window today looking across a field of sweet corn. So many years have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, … is shining and the sky looks so huge. That was the first impression I had of Canada, May 25th, 1945. I was 6th of 10 children; my father was …
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… Retail and Admissions Sales Associate – 30 Hours Per Week …
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… of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek …
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… brick is in memory of my parents, Bruno and Rosanna Bellissimo, to show how grateful I am that they left their homeland to bring their family to Canada so that we could have a better life. This is my story: Together with my … we left the little town of Vallelonga, Italy in April 1953. My father had immigrated to Canada four years earlier to begin working in order …
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… of Immigration conducts recorded interviews across the country in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek …
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… in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … the « Heimat ». I was fascinated by it all, the air was full of sound, names were shouted to and from the boat, cries, so many tears, … old, some engines conked out and I arrived on a very sunny day : April 30 1965 in Quebec City instead. Life in Montreal was exciting – Expo 67 …
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… to get to a refugee camp. Yeah. Oral History 13.11.23BDS with Bwe Doh Soe Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Return to Refugee Experiences Gallery Photograph of Bwe Doh Soe with his mother, sisters and brother taken in 1997 upon entering a … Hiding in the Jungle - Bwe Doh Soe …
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… War bride: left Liverpool, England aboard the ship, Athlone Castle, May 2, 1945. Arrived at Pier 21, in Halifax, May 12, … 18 I met 29 year old, Staff Sergeant, William F. (Bill) Kydd, RCOC, while skating at a rink in Richmond, Surrey, England. At the time, I … to be married on June 13, 1944, about a year after our meeting. Bill had 48 hours leave but he couldn’t confirm his being there for our …