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… was district manager of Pearl Assurance Co. They made their home in Newtown, Wales. Thomas suffered from heart trouble and died August 2, … Glyn, Gomer, and one daughter Ceridwen. Before passing away Thomas wished Rosalind and the children to move to Canada where Rosalind's … river was starting to break up and they had to jump from one piece of ice to the other to cross. Once on the north side of the river Jack …
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… Dear Diary, The First Year in Canada July 11, 1951 I’m starting this diary today, because we’re leaving our home here in Kuopio, … that makes me sad. She feels very bad about leaving Mummi, because she’s Mummi’s only child. Our relatives were at the station and there … of hugging and crying. Also the people from Äiti’s work came to stand beside the railroad tracks to wave goodbye. That made her cry some …
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… people in the northern parts of the Netherlands skating along the canals. Soccer is also another tremendously popular sport in the … in length, is considered a lower general secondary education. HAVO – This is a higher general secondary education and is 5 years in length. … Kerstdag ) – December 25 Tweede Kerstdag ( Tweede Kerstdag )– December 26 Koningsdag or King’s Day marks the birthday of the King …
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… Angela Bianchini nee Toneguzzo On June 23, 1958, my mother, Angela (Toneguzzo) Bianchini … boarded the Queen Frederica in Genoa, Italy to join her husband in Canada. Not knowing when she would see them again, saying good-bye to … in Canada, my father returned to Italy in December 1957 and married his hometown sweetheart on February 15, 1958. My father returned to …
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… In 1953 after an eleven-day journey aboard the small Greek liner the Nea Hellas, I arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and became a … to the United States for work in the early 1900s and had obtained his American citizenship making Mary an American citizen when she was … with a paesano who was also making the journey. Although the ship has been described as one of the nicest ships ever built, she spent the …
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… across a field of sweet corn. So many years have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, a beautiful day. The sun is shining … to be at a dance, but I was! Ed (Jack Mills) was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … Ed rejoined the army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always …
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… on February 24th. Dad wanted to farm. Like many others in Holland, his family didn’t have enough land to divide among all the children who … Springs, Ontario where they met their sponsor and started working on his fruit farm. Their first home was an apartment above a garage on … retirement. It even allowed them to return several times to visit the family in Holland who they had left behind so many years ago, …
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… Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
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… Castle, May 2, 1945. Arrived at Pier 21, in Halifax, May 12, 1945. This is my story. At age 18 I met 29 year old, Staff Sergeant, William … his 10 days leave, in April 1945, we made arrangements for me to come to Canada. We felt if we waited until after the war, my departure … swells. We were not allowed on one side of the ship in case we were washed overboard. Staff wet the tablecloths and put up the table ledges …
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… Catherine Read nee MacKinnon When France capitulated in June, 1940 the threat of … giving an account of recent bombings and remarking, "now the Germans can swim across the English channel and invade Britain." In July, I … family, as well as the danger of being at sea during the war. Standing beside me, there were five members of one family, the Baines, and I …