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  • LACW Elsie F. Mills
    … May 25, 1945 Country of Origin: England By Elsie Mills 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, a beautiful day. The sun is shining … 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 …
  • 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 … together. In Tibet we don't have no toys, but they so were little stone. Stone. And they called rdo. Something to play like with your hand. … [21.04.14NRKMTK] Gelek Gyathong, interviewed by Sonam Nylosang [21.05.26GG] Nyingko Tsering, interviewed by Jigme Tsering [21.00.00NT] …
  • Margaret S. Kydd
    … War bride: left Liverpool, England aboard the ship, Athlone Castle, May 2, 1945. Arrived at Pier 21, in Halifax, May 12, 1945. This is my story. At age 18 I met 29 year old, Staff Sergeant, William …
  • ALL ABOARD!
    … increasingly cater to younger passengers by promoting their services and products to them and their parents. Youth now hold more … immediately after the Second World War, transportation companies such as: Cunard White Star Line, the Canadian National Railway (CNR) and the … vanilla ice cream, peach cream cake, biscuits, bread and butter, jam, fresh milk, tea or cocoa, and oranges. [1] Ship menu, SS Duchess …
  • Hannah Grist and Linda Anne Grist
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  • “We Wanted to Come to Canada”: Pier 21 and the Arrival of Polish Orphans
    … and Soviet forces invaded Poland and split the country into two zones according to the terms of their agreement. Between September 1939 … forces – hostile to the Polish population and its culture – imprisoned some 500,000 Polish nationals and deported a further 500,000 … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT …
  • Sapper Melvin E. Clark
    … star Italy Star France Germany Star Defense of Britain Medal CVSM (Can Volunteer Service Medal) Victory Medal … war declared 1941 - Joined the Canadian Army and trained in Petawawa, Ontario August 1941 - Left Halifax for Scotland on the Cameronia / 18 … Germany into thinking more troops were stationed there than really were. Scotland to Sicily June 1943 The need for battle experience and the …

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