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… Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to … in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done …
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… Stories in Dutch On 15 April 1953, after two hours of sleep, we were called up to begin the voyage. Right on schedule, the Roetje … the moving your papers from one table to another. Looking out for the boys and hearing them say ‘look at that, like to get one of those’. …
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… Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to … in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done …
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by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) On 17 October 1913, Panama Maru arrived at Victoria, British Columbia . The ship was a regularly-scheduled passenger liner of the Osaka Soshen Kaisha Line, carrying 56 passengers identified by immigration authorities as “Hindus,” although …
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… Country of Origin : England Ship Name : Letitia Port of Departure : Liverpool, England … Age on Arrival : 23 years Age on Arrival (Daughter) : 10 months Joan Winifred Mitchell (affectionately known as Fiffe) the youngest child of James and Elizabeth Mitchell (nee Legassick), was born at home in North London in 1923. Her siblings included one sister, Lily, and …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 6, 2020) At that time…[there were]…no buses running, it was like a strike, all the transportation. So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to …
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by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Pier 21 was built as one of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s South End Ocean Terminals. The overall development included the grain elevator system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the …
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… Country of Origin: Northern Ireland Ship Name: Metagama Canadian Pacific Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on … - Repatriation Draft (Joure, Holland) 07/08/1945 - Draft #1/Train #153 (Toronto, Canada) - Reunited with wife & two young daughters …
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… reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this … WRAF he had met. Then I thought I might begin by the entry in his well-worn small pocket diary with the entry on December 12, 1943 "Met … months for the letter which was delivered by a Regina policeman - the telegram delivery boys had long since refused to carry that type of …
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… reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this … WRAF he had met. Then I thought I might begin by the entry in his well-worn small pocket diary with the entry on December 12, 1943 "Met … months for the letter which was delivered by a Regina policeman - the telegram delivery boys had long since refused to carry that type of …