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At age 21, Filippo Trento left Trieste, Italy bound for Halifax, Canada. He arrived at Pier 21 on March 21st, 1957 aboard the Saturnia. He left his entire family - 4 sisters, 2 brothers and his father to seek a better life in Canada. He did not know if he would ever see his family again. The …
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Soon it was March 11, 1953, a warm and bright spring day and also the day we steamed out of Copenhagen harbour bound for an uncertain, but, hopefully, promising future. The entire family had gathered on the waterfront to bid us bon voyage. It was a tearful event, and Uncle Kurt ran the length of …
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Topic: Museums and Heritage Institutions …
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My family and I arrived in Canada on the Neptunia at Pier 21 on March 14 1956. Being born in East Germany in 1928, the early part of my life up to the late teens was spent there under the communist regime. Immediately after the war was over while Germany was in such desperate shape in 1945 that my …
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MY FATHER - F/O Thomas Roberts [Bob] Millar RAAF Observer 422612 104 Squadron RAF Jan-July 1944 Foggia Main and 31 Squadron SAAF Aug-Oct 1944 Celone Foggia My RAAF father was born in Sept. 1916 in Narromine NSW Australia and later lived in Sydney, attending schools and University there. He was …
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Leaving Home by Sheila Laird I was an English War Bride. My husband was wounded and sent back to Canada to be discharged. I was pregnant with our second child and could not join him until the baby was five months old. In May 1946 word came that he had found an apartment and I was to report to a …
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Sheila Pattison …
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Shuren, George Olga …
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Sibbele, Boukje Hoogsteen …
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Signalman John A. Reynolds …