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Epic struggles and enormous challenges faced Andrew and Anna Maksymchuk as they struggled to scrounge a living and raise a family under the oppressive regime of Soviet Ukraine. By 1930, after ten years of farming under ever-worsening conditions, Andrew had endured enough. He had heard about the …
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I spent the whole voyage from Liverpool to Halifax in the ship's hospital with pneumonia, while my two daughters were looked after by the wonderful staff. Arriving in Ottawa as a war bride, it didn't take long for me to realise that I had married an alcoholic. However, with no alternative but to …
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Margaret Sykes nee Kennedy was born on January 27, 1910 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was the second oldest of thirteen. Margaret came to Canada aboard the Andania on November 10, 1928. The Salvation Army organized the trip to Canada for children of families that were overcrowded. Upon her arrival in …
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Margaret Chase Huxford On September 3rd I was in Times Square, New York. I saw the declaration of war spelt out on the moving letters on the top of the clock. I should have been overwhelmed with dread at the news and perhaps taken the next train home. But this was the trip of a lifetime, my first …
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I don't quite believe it, I'm actually going to Pier 21, Halifax NS. Ever since I heard about the creation of this new historical site I've been on a mission. You see its been some 46 1/2 years since I've been there. I was only 2 1/2 at the time so I don't remember too much. I came here with my …
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MARIA MARRONE Born: Maria Di Girolamo August 25, 1933 Fossacessia, Italy Immigration: 1956 Date of Departure: April 14, 1956, Napoli, Italy Date of Arrival: April 24, 1956, Fort Erie, Ontario Sailing Ship: SS Constitution Destination: Sudbury Ontario Occupation: Housewife /Seamstress/Factory …
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Antonio Pagano I arrived in Canada in April, 1958. I left Naples, Italy on a ship called the Vulcania on April 9th and I arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax on April 18th, 1958. I celebrated Easter on board the ship. I came from a small town in Italy called San Pietro Infine, in the Region of Campania. I …
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Editor's Note: This account originally appeared in Betty Jean Barnhill's Canadian Studies 4400 project entitled: The Stories of Four English War Brides Who Adapted to Canada: How the War Bride Society Helped Them to Adapt. It is reproduced with the permission of the subject and Ms. Barnhill. MR. …
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Marjorie Franklyne was just a young woman when she arrived with her first born, a son who was just shy of his first birthday. He was a toddler and she carried him in her arms as she disembarked from the Queen Mary. The date was August 8th, 1946 and she and young Johnnie, were stepping into a world …
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As a Lance Corporal in the WAAFs, Marjorie was a driver at Coastal Command, Northwood. There she met Squadron Leader John Werner Abrams, an American from San Francisco who had enlisted in the RCAF at the outbreak of war. They married soon after, as he was reassigned in the spring of 1944 to help …