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… to be answered, which kept Canadian officials very busy. [8] Molloy points out that before the Chilean movement, the refugee constituency … public pressure for action, federal officials soon indicated that any future plan to help refugees would be structured around a security and … 1988), 385. ↩ LAC, Social Science Federation of Canada (hereafter SSFC) fonds, MG28-I81, vol. 419, file 21 “Chilean Refugees - Memo of Nov …
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… passengers were promptly landed, and another seven followed after a day, based on their having established domicile in Canada before. [1] …
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… and their son Justin flew to Halifax and were able to spend the day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in … name, Otto Froese, on the Wall of Honour. It was a most memorable day. The displays, the film, the train, everything was very, very … 39, my stepsister Ruth 20 , I was 7, my brothers Peter (turned 5 that day) and Dirk 2, and my little sister Ute was 10 months old. Our nanny …
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… soccer ball from socks and newspapers. I remember that I had to save coins and beg the bigger boys in the camp to take me to the cinema to … busy putting out the fires, the children were searching the ashes for coins. When the bulldozers came to shut down the refugee camp, I was …
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… camps in Germany. Also gold, silver, art, paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of value. For a radio, you could be shot. The last … farm, where there was no hydro, wood or coal to heat your house and no food. People in the cities were desperate. We were expecting the allies … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
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… was an important waterway from pre-Roman times. The Magyars, who would come to be known as Hungarians, travelled from the foothills of the … after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Pier 21 was one of the entry points which welcomed many of these Hungarian immigrants, particularly the large group …
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… 1910 Immigration Act that allowed for the admission to Canada of bona fide agriculturalists who had sufficient means to commence farming in …
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… be sure to include the ship name and accession number (i.e. DI2012.1.1). … General WC Langfitt …
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… "In Search Of A Better Life..." What was he thinking of that day in the summer of 1951 as he stood motionless looking out over the … Gulf of Naples? With the warm and passionate rays of "O Sole Mio" guiding him up the ramp and onto the deck of the great ship," The … arrived at a very tiny train station in New Hamburg, Ontario after a 14-day journey across the Atlantic. He carried his only worldly …