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  • A Good Life by Metta
    … work, and a lot of interesting experiences. I think it was a pretty good life. Return to Gimli … A Good Life by Metta …
  • Karl, Irmgard Brall
    … for a newspaper in the town of Minden and Anna was a homemaker who had been born and raised on a prosperous farm near the university town … bearing her initials embroidered on towels, bedding, table cloth etc. While learning her craft atthe shop Irmgard also went to trade school where the focus was on …
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    … Provide as much information as possible about your request and how you will use the items. Licenses will be issued for requests as … subject of the item Reasonable notice is given to Collections staff in order to process the request Multimedia editing services are not … accommodated on a “rush service” basis, depending on the size of the order. Double fees will apply for rush service (10 business days or …
  • Nederlof van Tiggelen
    … just up and do, you talk about it, think about it and talk about it again, you go to all kinds of bureaus for information. When it gets to be pretty … start praying a lot about it. The time comes that you only pray that God will show you the way; at least this is the way it was with us. …
  • Umbertinese
    … parents with the farm work. The two young parents packed their personal belongings into one suitcase, courageously leaving their parents … exhausting for all and when they finally arrived to Canada and made it off the ship they certainly were unaccustomed to the snow and the very … for two years. Soon after their arrival, Gaetano and Angela went out to find work, Luciana started school and Pina stayed at home with …
  • Maria Teresa DiGiandomenico
    … Italy and made our way to Naples. We were filled with excitement but also scared as we had never travelled so far from home. My father, Franco, left Italy in 1953 for Brazil in order to work in the construction industry to make enough money so that …
  • Maisie, Stan and Ron Goat
    … Maisie, Stan and Ron Goat …
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    … your experience. The Museum’s Accessibility Plan and information on how to provide feedback can be found on this web page . → NaviLens To improve accessibility, … technology. Download the free NaviLens App . You can scan nearly 100 codes around our museum. This will guide you with audio navigation and …
  • Vice-Admiral Douglas S. Boyle
    … Revelstoke, British Columbia. His middle name, prophetic as it turned out to be, was his mother’s family name. Susan Ann Dorothy and Allan Douglas Boyle, his parents, had immigrated to Canada from England and settled in Revelstoke just … hero. This led him (without his parents’ knowledge) to write off to the fledgling Canadian Navy to enquire about becoming a sailor. …
  • Francesco and Rosaria
    … Francesco Natoli's Story This story is written by Francesco's eldest daughter Mary … in Sicily and my mother Rosaria Capobianco was born in a small town in southern Italy. They met during the war in Naples where he was in the … moved back to my mother's small town and lived with her parents. They had 4 children within 5 years. It was a struggle to earn enough money …

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