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… Families 1956 From Stalin to Kellogg’s Cornflakes By: Janos Maté Had it not been for Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin my … So it was for our Mid-European Jewish family in nineteenth and twentieth century Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The lives of our parents …
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… by daughter Jane David Gordon Pettifer, his wife Sheila Doreen (Bradwell) and three children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train from Quebec City to Peterborough, Ontario to stay in a cottage in Bewdley on Rice Lake until we could buy a farm - my Dad's dream. My grandparents, William Alwyn Bradwell …
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… Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC)is saddened by the news that its In-House Legal Counsel, Hugh M. Kelly Q.C., passed away on December 12, …
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… in a previous Convent which was bombed one night while she was in Sick Bay. Her Artillary Officer Capt. Price was killed. She was lucky that … Rooms were reopened to the public). She married Leo and daughter Carol Ann was born just before the war ended. Dad was sent home with his Unit in late 1945 and Muriel and Carol Ann arrived in Canada on The Queen Mary at Pier 21 July 1946. Muriel …
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During the Pier 21 years (1928-1971) Dutch immigrants were the fifth largest ethnic group to arrive in Canada. In the pre Second World War years most Dutch immigrants settled in Ontario (15,000 between 1918 and 1939). They trickled in through the depression (3,200) but immigration largely halted …
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… Families February 1953 - Groote Beer We were married on February 5, 1953 and on the 20th we went to … lots of it. There where very big rooms with lots of bunk beds for sleeping, woman and children in one room and the man in a other, not very …
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… 9:30 am to 5:30 pm From November 26, 2025, to April 8, 2026, you can buy your tickets at the Boutique. The Museum elevator will be …
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… In the year 1947 the first immigrants left Holland under the motto of "we need a better future for our children". The people in Holland had … Beer. Then for me came a difficult time be cause we had to say good-bye to friends and family but some how that also past, the packers … Martin O. Kloet …
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… My Journey started 7th July 1952 in West Berlin (US Sector). I left Berlin by Bus with approximately 50 to … Script dollars (military money) which we could spent at the PX Shop to buy cigarettes, chocolates and other small items. After 2 to 3 days sea …
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… Children I was only seven when my brothers, sisters and I were told we were moving to a place called Canada and would live on a … took its place! Strangers walked into our house taking our furniture away with them. Suitcases and trunks mysteriously showed up everywhere. … way what these bags were really for, as the floating city got under way. How could our stomachs possibly take this for nine whole days? My …