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  • Vijay Bhosekar
    … They were all houses you know, I think it was probably that the community was all in different houses. There were no towers you know? … go back to school in order to find work in his field in Canada. Vijay completed a post-graduate certificate in environmental studies at Sheridan College in 2007. He officially left his position at …
  • Toon and Trees Maas
    … Dutch tradition) before the Catholic Church on September 20, 1952. Two days later, Mr. & Mrs. Maas boarded the Groote Beer in Rotterdam for Canada. Their crossing of eight days, or so, was rather eventful as the newly married couple was … issued by the Canadian Embassy in The Hague for travel to Dartmouth, via TRURO, NEW GLASGOW, and ANTIGONISH, took matters into his own hands …
  • Fifi - Winnipeg by Fifi
    … it was my first time getting sick. My mother started the process of coming to Canada because I was gravely ill. After a bit of time I came … Canada was a country without suffering. If you are under 18, you must come to the NEEDS Centre, until you find a school. In 2010, I continued …
  • Private Gordon B. Allen
    … Gordon B. Allen, born in February 1925 in Port Elgin, New Brunswick, enrolled for wartime military service in … 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. In September 1941, Gordon boarded the Louis Pasteur at Pier 21 bound for Scotland. After crossing the …
  • Sergeant W. Vandekamp
    … was Wounter v.d. Kamp, later changed to Walter Vandekamp. He arrived in Halifax in March of 1928 on board the M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, the … a 320 acre homestead in the Caribou region plus or minus 80 miles E.N.E. of Lac la Hache, BC, built a log house and out buildings and … in 1939 he joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was sent to Truro, Nova Scotia. Later he was sent overseas to Great Britain and was …
  • Ennio A. Paola
    … napkin or a scarf. According to the archives at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia the Saturnia stopped at the following ports: New York, Boston, Halifax-Ponta Delgada, Lisbon, Casablanca, Gibraltar, Palma De Mallorca, Barcelona, … in Cantanzaro, Italy. The woman holding him is his mother, Emma Paola (née Mirabelli). Emma was born in Cosenza, Italy on September 5, 1928. …
  • Sowada Lydia Dorothea Sieg Melanie
    … of German descent, spoke seven languages, and never went to school a day in her life. Until the invasion, the children spoke German and … Canada. They alternate between East and West. Dorothea worked for 26 years with the T. Eaton Co. and retired in 1993 at which time she …
  • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    … Peter Biesheuvel and his son Brian visited the Museum early on a Saturday morning. I told my husband that I would meet them at 9:30 a.m., show them around the exhibit …
  • Ivan and Anna Zadan
    … 8 th , 1945 the air was fresh and the taste of freedom was exhilarating to Ivan Zadan. As the gates of the forced labour camps were flung … live together. Everything changed on May 8 th 1945, World War II had come to an end in Europe. A cease fire order was in place, and the … trek through the mountains. This time a stroke of good luck came their way. They stumbled upon an American military base encampment and Ivan …
  • Sadie T. Fineberg
    Sadie T. Fineberg …

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