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… Sport As with many European countries, football (soccer) is the most popular … historical past. In the northern region of Italy, for example, music has strong Celtic influences, while the southern half of the country … of Sicily is the flute. Opera is a well-known form of music to come out of Italy beginning as early as the 16 th century in Venice. …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction “If one thing caused scenes at Pier 21, it was sausages.” This statement … exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food confiscation. Food can be a …
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… He was dressed in his best slacks and blazer with a crisp, white shirt … Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He …
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… The first graduating class of Radio Mechanics from the University of Toronto, Sept. 1941 is pictured below and includes 26 year old Arnold Shewan from Thamesford, Ontario. He had signed up in … is listed as RDF Mechanic (Radar) in Rosehearty Scotland, where he met his future wife, Grace Major . It was when he was on an “upgrading” …
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… April 2, 1955 (Laura) Age on Arrival: Antonio - 36, Laura - 31 My Mother used to tell this story often. Before coming to Canada she felt … me, Rita) along with her trunk of belongings. She recalls that at one point an official at the warehouse came by to assist her, and he reached to pick …
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… by Dan Conlin, Curator Time 0:02:24 Transcript: One of the most compelling artifacts in our exhibition Refuge Canada is … message for help. This desk set was given to a Canadian Immigration Official by a family in Germany about 1946. The official, Traugott Otto Francis Herzer, was in charge of immigration …
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… of origin: England Name of individual: Ivy Williamson Story: My mother’s name was Ivy Edie Stevenson and she was born on January 26th, 1927 to Charles and Caroline Stevenson. She was 1 of 13 children …
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… Anne Benjamins-Booy …
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… Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey My sister, Catherine MacKinnon Read , and I left … when we would see it again. At sea, we joined a large convoy of many different kinds of ships. To me, this was the beginning of a real … German U-boats were sinking all shipping, including children ships. One in our convoy was torpedoed, and all lives lost, as no one stops to …