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  • Pte. Lawrence J. Hebert
    … Lawrence Joseph Hebert November 27, 1920 - October 4, 2000 My father enlisted on June 16, 1941 and was discharged on January 26, 1946. He was in the first wave at Juno Beach on D-Day. That is all … Pte. Lawrence J. Hebert …
  • Douwe and Hinke Neef and Family
    … Neef, age 38, Hinke (Helen) (van der Duim) Neef, age 37 and their four children Hans (Hank), age 12, Maria Hinke, age 11, Aaltje (Alice), … worked 60 to 80 hours per week (except Sundays), every week of every year for 26 years. Since the sponsors for the family were situated in both …
  • Private Arthur Fisher
    … My father, Arthur Fisher (Pte. #M105058), was born in Hay Lakes, Alberta, … well-respected blacksmith. My father enlisted in the army on November 26, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta. Pte. Fisher underwent basic training in … Private Arthur Fisher …
  • Concetta DeGasperis
    … means ... crowded or not, they were together, happy and prospering. A year later, Concetta's life would again change dramatically when she … Giovanni Guglietti . They married on August 26th, 1961 and in the years that followed brought four sons in to this world, Silvio, … as her homeland, a place she never forgot to praise. She enjoyed many years in this wonderful, abundant country and never forgot her humble …
  • Vittorio and Antonia Ciampini
    … On November 2, 1954, we arrived at Halifax Pier 21. I was four years old so I don't remember anything except for the long train ride from Halifax to Montreal where my grandfather came to greet us. We … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother …
  • Artist-in-Residence Winter 2024 – Santiago Guzmán
    … to develop his play Long-Distance-Short (working title). On March 26, 2025 a local audience was treated to a participatory …
  • Elio D'Alessio
    … Chieti Scalo to Selva Del Montello, Italy and finally Canada. My father Elio was born on November 26th 1926 in Chieti Scalo in the region of Abruzzo which is in central … Montello which is in Veneto, and there he met my mother Luisa Agnoletti, daughter of Ida and Ettore, where they fell in love and got married. …
  • Sowada Lydia Dorothea Sieg Melanie
    … Lydia was born in White Russia. As a young girl, she worked as a domestic and eventually ended up in Chorzow. She married Felix Sowada and they had three Children Dorothea, Siegmund … 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 …
  • Eddy Baldacchino
    … Eddy was born the ninth of thirteen siblings to Frank and Lorenza Baldacchino. He … thus be the last to immigrate. He boarded the Nea Hellas on November 26, 1953 with his brother George, sister Pauline and mother Lorenza. On …
  • Giovanni Diodato Guglietti
    … Giovanni Diodato Guglietti was born on September 27th 1935 as the first of five children born to Vincenzo Guglietti and Anna Tersigni … if he had to walk anywhere, he ran, if he rode his bicycle he would ride it fast, Giovanni always strived to be in front. So it wasn't … his homeland that was still recovering from the ravages of World War II and travel alone across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. His ultimate …

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