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… Anne, Mary, Shamus and Gertrude. She married John Gray, a Canadian soldier, in October, 1945, in Fivemiletown. She left for Canada in July, … 15th July, 1946 with 3300 people on board, 337 were wives of Canadian servicemen. She then travelled by train for 3+ days arriving in … she met up with her husband, John. They started their life in a small community, Huntingford, in Oxford County. Over the next few years, they …
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… unsold western grain constituted one of the severest problems of the day. Conditions worsened, including economic confusion and unemployment … June 1998, he travelled to Swift Current to celebrate Gene's 90th birthday. We are glad that we were able to find a place in Westview (a fine …
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… to visit family and also enjoy it when family and friends from Italy come to visit here in Canada. Their biggest passion is spending time … Everyone has made the trip back to Italy to visit relatives and become aquainted with their heritage. …
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… fortunate to find a job which meant that he would leave Berlin on Monday, return on Friday, repair the truck on Saturday, have a day off on Sunday and then start the same routine again. We …
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… was if my father could go first because you needed a relationship to come to Canada. You have to have a related person. My father, we found … I don’t remember, maybe I did after. I don’t know. GG: Oh, there’s future here. It was our future here. It doesn’t matter, you could see it either way. Really …
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… To most young people today, the Holocaust is a distant nightmare, something that took place long ago in a place far away. They have heard about the … 21 and the Atlantic Jewish Council brought that personal connection to Nova Scotian students in the form of Holocaust survivor Sidney …
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… Welcomed and Welcoming As I awoke in my upper bunk I immediately noticed … the throb of the engine that had accompanied us for the past eight days had ceased. The North Atlantic is not very pacific in the early … baggage I was discovered by a reporter for a Halifax newspaper who had come to record the arrival of the first refugees from Hitler. I was one …
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… with officials and told us, his children, years later that the next day he would have been taken away to jail. In the middle of the night, …
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… Luncheon with a Fascinating Canadian Date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Time: 11:30am Location: Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front St. W. … Canadian Speakers Speaker Year Location Rosalie Abella, CC 2026 Halifax John M. Beck, OOnt 2025 Toronto Sherry Porter, CM 2024 …