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Bettie Love Fader …
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Ethel Lucas McLellan …
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My parents and my brother (age 4) and I (age 6) arrived at Pier 21 after a 9 day voyage on the Dutch ship the "Johan van Oldenbarneveldt" out of Rotterdam. The majority of the passengers were, as we were, refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on our way to a new life in Canada. We had been …
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Angelo and Carmela …
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The trip from Rotterdam took seven days and I arrived in Halifax full of hope and the expectation of travelling to Alberta to meet my sponsor family and begin a new life in Canada. Holland was war-torn and held no future for a young man at that time. At Pier 21, I was met by Immigration Officials …
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I came to Canada in June 1962 to join my two brothers Gabriele and Vittorio who came to Canada in 1955 and 1958. I came from Italy, from the town of Decollatura - the Catanzaro region of Calabria. I boarded the ship Saturnia in Naples. I was 23 years old at the time and this was the first time I …
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The Daughters of Penelope …
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Ella Hyman David …
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Fannie Yazer David …
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Nathan David …