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  • We Never Talk About Hope - Bwe Doh Soe
    … that you never, uh, yeah. Oral History 13.11.23BDS with Bwe Doh Soe Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Return to Refugee … We Never Talk About Hope - Bwe Doh Soe …
  • Ivan and Anna Zadan
    … As the gates of the forced labour camps were flung open, Ivan walked out and quickly gathered his family. It was 3 years earlier that the … Zadan family were placed in forced labour camps in Linz, Austria. They had been taken out of Ukraine by the advancing German Army, placed in … to live together. Everything changed on May 8 th 1945, World War II had come to an end in Europe. A cease fire order was in place, and the …
  • 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 …
  • 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. …
  • Zbigniew and Stefania Sauter
    … we lost our precious freedom. My family was separated and we never again had the chance to be together. I spent five dreadful war years in my country, … Shortly before the war ended, I found myself in Germany against my will. The end of the war didn't bring freedom to my country as I had …
  • Katarina Marinic - 2019 Artist-in-Residence
    … The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is delighted to welcome Katarina Marinic as Artist-in-Residence for 2019. Katarina’s work … The accessibility and ease of taking photographs and sharing them online has shaped how we express ideas of family, place, and community… … Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Telephone: (902) 425-7770 ext. 264 C : (902) 430-3986  bhouston-gilfoy@pier21.ca …
  • "Might Be the Best of the Lot": Baltic Refugees, Canadian Immigration Policy and the Arrival of SS Walnut
    … Walnut ’s passengers helped to alter Canadian immigration policy and how Canadian officials processed new arrivals. Canadian Postwar … Immigrants Shortly after the Second World War, Canadian officials had their preferences in terms of immigrants to Canada. High … war-ravaged Europe. In July 1946, the federal government passed an Order-in-Council permitting approximately 3,000 Polish Free Army …
  • The Alois Kienle Family
    … NS. Ever since I heard about the creation of this new historical site I've been on a mission. You see its been some 46 1/2 years since I've been there. I was only 2 1/2 at the time … Germany for the adventure of our lives. Some neighbours were there to say farewell. Most of them thought we were out of our minds for making …
  • F/Lt Maurice R. Hennigar
    … enough for the both of us! The fine teacher, Lloyd Allen from Halifax, had been a bush pilot in the Canadian North in the 30's, as were most of the civilian instructors on our station in 1940-1941. The Cap aerodrome was a good-sized field without designated runways. The windsock determined …
  • Giuseppe Barbieri e Maria Cugliari
    … IN ITALY Maria Barbieri (Cugliari) and Giuseppe Barbieri had five young girls aged 17 months – 11 years old when they … parents and all involved approved the marriage. Giuseppe and Maria got married within 2 months of the betrothal. In the early 50s, Maria’s … move to Toronto by this time, and the calls to leave were persistent. While continuing with the process and hopes to immigrate to the …

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