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I was born Perla Brill in Minsk, Russia, October 19, 1905. I was the second youngest in a family of three brothers and one sister. My oldest brother, David, went to New York in 1914, my second brother drowned, the third was killed in the Russian army and my little sister died at a young age of …
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I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army buddy. Trying for a maturity I didn't yet possess, I pretended I was older than my seventeen years. Much to his surprise I hadn't aged any when he returned two years later …
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Dedicated with all love, pride and gratitude possible from his wife Jean E. MacPherson, Antigonish, NS, their ten children and six grand-children, as well as his sisters, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Troy, C.B., NS, Mamie MacIsaac, Randoph, MA, USA and their families. … P/O Joseph Daniel …
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Olive Helen (Briggs) Ripley was born in Orpington, Kent, England on July 18, 1923. Her parents were Reginald and Lillian Briggs. She has a younger sister, Diana Dilley, still living in England. In 1944, Olive met a Canadian soldier stationed overseas in Kent waiting to go to France during WWII. In …
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Lt (N/S) Vera Catherine MacDonald was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. She graduated from the Halifax Infirmary School of Nursing. She joined the RCAMC and was posted to England. Vera was killed in a jeep accident on June 22, 1945. The plaque was dedicated to Vera's memory with love and gratitude …
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Alumni Type: Immigrants Country of Origin: Netherlands Ship Name: Groote Beer Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: April 11, 1956 … Louw Griet Netty Bob …
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… Lorenzo Pietro Nicolini …
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Lieutenant Walter M. White Walter M. White was born in Princeport, Colchester County, Nova Scotia on October 25, 1914, the third son of Morton and Sarah (Foley) White. He was orphaned at a young age and was raised by Hiram and Ruth Dalrymple of Kennetcook, Nova Scotia. On September 19th, 1939, …
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Michael Joseph O'Hara came to Canada from Ireland at the age of 3. On April 6, 1929 Michael departed from Londonderry, Ireland aboard the R.M.S. Caledonia along with his mother, Mary, father Owen, sister Rose and brothers John, Hugh and James. One week later, April 13, 1929 they arrived at Pier 21, …
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I was born January 29, 1931 in Czechoslovakia. After the 1948 communist coup d'etat I escaped in 1949 to Germany where I worked as a bookkeeper for the International Refugee Organization (I.R.O) - a U.N. body. In 1951 I imigrated to Canada. There are four small episodes tied together with the …