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  • 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 …
  • Empress of Ireland - Painting the Mural
    … the Empress of Ireland was getting ready to sail away. This might have been the last sight that people were seeing. So it’s a recognizable … ready to feel what it was like maybe to have been on the ship. You can experience their last view as they’re sailing away. And then, as you go through the exhibit you can feel what it would have been like to be on the ship and …
  • Sadie T. Fineberg
    Sadie T. Fineberg …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … a displaced persons camp in Austria, they came to Canada. This trunk accompanied them on their voyage across the Atlantic after the Second World …
  • Jeanne Beker unpacks her wardrobe… and her past
    … a displaced persons camp in Austria, they came to Canada. This trunk accompanied them on their voyage across the Atlantic after the Second World …
  • Private Herman Wallace Murray
    … showed the trace Of tears from that beloved face. I wondered then why she should fright, For wasn't I prepared to fight For victory, … to Calgary, 1946, and other then for a couple of years spent in Nova Scotia in the later forties and mid-seventies, he resided in …
  • Filena Bruno Fiorita and Family
    … for his wife, my mother, Filena Bruno Fiorita and my 3 siblings to come to Canada. Filena was already 41 years old and my siblings, Maria, … anticipated letters from her relatives which at that time took many days to arrive. Filena also prepared and sent parcels with staples like … of their parents and grandparents. Dan, their only son, was to become in 1985 the first foreign-born Canadian to be named Canadian …
  • Kavitha Ramachandran
    … … so it’s very important and understand that again when you’re coming to this country you consider yourself as an infant you don’t … she earned a bachelor’s of science, a master’s in nutrition and dietetics, and a master’s in food service management. In India, Kavitha worked both as a high school teacher and as a dietitian at a national fitness centre. Kavitha had a long-term goal of …

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