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  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Cookbooks, Cultural Connections, And Migration
    … bought a cookbook called The I Never Cooked Before Cookbook. I still have it…it tells you how to break an egg and separate the yolk from the white, how to tell … the oven. And it wasn’t very tasty. When she found out, she says, “You can’t afford to buy that stuff. It’s too expensive. You’re going to …
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton
    … CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH REGIMENT OF CANADA 23/09/1939 - Militia 20/06/1940 - … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by … war, he said a few words of hail and farewell and wished them all the best that life can afford, and which you so richly deserve). A launch …
  • Peter Hessel
    … Hessel's Diary Aboard the M.S. Anna Salén in the northern North Sea, off the Scottish coast. Tuesday, June 17, 1952: On Friday (June 13th) I … Sunday (June 15th) I was examined, received my train tickets for Bremerhaven, and my passport. That's when I was finally completely convinced … through" again (police and customs inspection). They only asked: "How much money do you have?" Nothing was checked. Then we went aboard …
  • Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972
    … became a widely-used metaphor for cultural pluralism in modern Canada, the use of such terms to describe Canadian diversity can be traced back to the early interwar period. Against the backdrop … Early Political and Public Responses to Canada’s Official Multiculturalism Policy, 1971-1972 …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 20, 2020) Introduction For centuries, child orphans have sought permanent resettlement in Canada. Refugee orphans seeking … pressured federal immigration officials to admit 109 orphaned boys on an “experimental basis.” [2] Armenians as “Asiatics” and …
  • Catherine MacKinnon Read
    … giving an account of recent bombings and remarking, "now the Germans can swim across the English channel and invade Britain." In July, I heard about the C.O.R.B. for the first time. However, evacuation was never discussed in our family. In August, … the risk involved. The following morning, Anne and I said good-bye to our parents and left by taxi. My favorite teacher, Margaret …
  • Quotes - Life in Canada
    … to the Netherlands. They had every intention of saving enough money to buy a truck, loading our kist on the back of it, and heading for … the hall to the classroom. The school principal decided that in our best interest my sister, age 9 and I, age 10, should be put back a … Not only that, he was smart enough to do grades 3 and 4 in one year. I have never understood the principal’s reasoning. His decision resulted …
  • John Vanderlaan
    … When 6 years old, I went to elementary school and in 1942 went to high school in the provincial capital, Groningen. The high school was … of being shot at on my way to and from school, my parents thought it best at that time to take me out of high school. I went to work on a … a medical office in The Hague, where all prospective immigrants had to have a physical check-up and proof of having successfully undergone a …
  • Theodore and Maria Jacobs
    … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the … where they where stationed until August 1950. Though he never attended high school due to the outbreak of the Second World War, Theo took a … so they went back to the Netherlands to find wives. He would have considered going to New Zealand but that was not offered. Within …

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