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… Jose Linhares De Sousa …
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Joseph Hoffer and his brother Leizer before they left Europe Joseph and Leizer in Winnipeg in 1951 … Joseph Hoffer …
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… Jean Bowman Courchaine …
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(Story told by her younger sister, Mary K. (Bowes) Astephen) Jean was 28 years old when she came through Pier 21 in February 1946. Travelling by rail from Halifax to New Westminster, BC with her son, Andrew, she began life in Canada living in the Old Vancouver Hotel where her daughter, Barbara, was …
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… Jean Tennant McGill …
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My Mother, Jeannie Lynn Rees, born Jeannie Lynn Thomson, was a beautiful, young (only 16 years old), Glaswegian lass. My father Harold Melville Rees , was a handsome, charming, funny Canadian in the RCAF. They met in a dance hall in Glasgow, called the Locarno, and were married on July 25, 1945. …
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Jill Alexander then Jill Alexander now … Jill Field Alexander and Sons …
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I got married October 11th to Canadian solider, Private Clarence Melville Wright . I received notice to sail for Canada on the Queen Mary in June 1946. It was a very enjoyable trip. MacKenzie King was then Prime Minister and gave a speech to the war brides, as he also was a passenger. I met by my …
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Mr. Janis Levalds was born at Embute, Latvia in April 27, 1904 Family photo below shows Mr Levalds with his wife Karline, his son Ilmars (Nov 8, 1929), his daughter Rasma (Feb 16, 1933) and Ausma (April 28, 1940). This picture was taken at Ausma's Christening (1940) in Latvia … The Janis Levalds …
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I was born on August 29, 1936 in Tarcento, a town in the north-eastern Friuli region of Italy. My father was a carpenter who worked not only in Italy, but also in France and Germany, depending on the season. He worked hard to provide for my mother and my family, which was no easy task seeing as I …