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  • Fred Carter
    … Fred Carter was born July 23, 1900 in Manchester, England and immigrated to Canada arriving in Quebec City May 27, 1912 on the Tunisian. He died in Vancouver, BC December 15, 1985. Fred often spoke to his family of his trip from …
  • Private Harry Heinz
    … My Pier 21 Story Elizabeth Heinz, Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had … children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
  • Private Ella Heinz Rinder
    … My Pier 21 Story Elizabeth Heinz, Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had … children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
  • Stanley, Martha, Gloria, Janet Jones
    … in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on January 17, 1954. We had lived in South End on Sea and then Colchester Essex before coming to Canada. The … on to Halifax. The ship would then be proceeding on to New York City. During the voyage, after several days of sailing, we encountered a terrible hurricane, which caused it …
  • Emmanuel and Rose Flaig
    … My Pier 21 Story Elizabeth Heinz, Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had … children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
  • Squissato
    … Our story began in January 1952 when our Dad came to Canada by himself to set things up before the rest of the family followed. He came aboard … to the snow and cold in our first house in Little Long Lac. Our short pants and leggings did not work out so well; the leggings got wet in …
  • Nicodemo Vincenzo Nick Joe Piccolo
    … Our family story begins with my great-grandfather Nicodemo Piccolo. It amazes our family to this date, the courage this man had to set out to a strange unknown country to make a better life for his family. We understand that he attempted to come to Canada many times but failed without the proper documents. …
  • The Smell of War in the Air - Yella and Mooshie Zahirovich
    Becoming a Refugee Time 3:12 Transcript: Mooshie Zahirovich (MZ) : So Yugoslavia was falling apart and, and some, parts of it already declared as, as independent states, and, and I could hear guns closer and closer coming to my place. And, and you could feel this uneasiness all around us. And, and …
  • Vittorio Polletta
    … which took 7 days and arrived April 1953. I travelled by train to job site in B.C. There were 30 us on the job. Everything was very primitive and only brooks and ponds for drinking water which was not suitable. There was a coke …
  • Long Journeys: The First Tibetans in Canada
    … the quality of caring about the collective welfare, a person who is community-minded. The choice of this expression as a project name is a … of Tibetans, founding members of today’s community in Canada, who embodied that spirit and shared it with their children. The Chyssem … sometimes when it's raining, tents are not waterproof. So many people died there too, yeah." Screen text The UNHCR assisted the Indian …

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