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  • 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), … family was able to stay together in one cabin. One evening during a bad storm, Douwe and Hans went to a film but by the end of the film … 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
    … well-respected blacksmith. My father enlisted in the army on November 26, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta. Pte. Fisher underwent basic training in …
  • Concetta DeGasperis
    … life would again change dramatically when she met the man who would become her dance partner for life, Giovanni Guglietti . They married on August 26th, 1961 and in the years that followed brought four sons in to this … a large and grateful family who will always remember the love she bestowed upon her future generations. She is dearly missed. May …
  • 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 … father Vittorio Ciampini (28 years old), my mother Antonia D'Alesio (26 years old), my sister Domenica (6 years old) and my brother … herder without a trade and without much schooling so he decided to come to Canada in search of a better life for his family. He had …
  • 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 …
  • Canada's Storytellers: Catherine Clement
    Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026  Time: 2:00 pm Location: In-person event at the Museum Language: Presented in English Cost: FREE Register to attend this event → This Asian Heritage Month, the Museum presents a special edition of Canada’s Storytellers featuring award winning community historian and …
  • Elio D'Alessio
    … 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 Italy … and got married. They started a business of making liquors but did not have much success. By that time, I, Annida, was born and my father to …
  • Sowada Lydia Dorothea Sieg Melanie
    … the example of caring for others, especially those who were less well off than themselves. Lydia was of German descent, spoke seven … They lived in Nossen from 1945 until 1950 when they escaped to the West, settling in Gifhorn. Dorothea, who had trained and worked on the … time in Kamloops where she raised her family of five girls and one boy. She did some wonderful work with mentally and physically …
  • Eddy Baldacchino
    … 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 … song; they too shed a tear. It was relayed on many occasions how the passengers suffered from the effects of sea sickness. They …
  • Giovanni Diodato Guglietti
    … central Italian town of Sora, Frosinone. Even as a child Giovanni had shown himself to be courageous, brave and a natural leader - … and future wife, Concetta DeGasperis . They were married on August 26, 1961 and soon started a family of their own welcoming in to the world four sons, Silvio, Riccardo, Marco and John. Together Giovanni and …

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