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… The Departure . Originally published in The Illustrated London News , 6 th July 1850. Credit: RTE … is no ship manifest to say where they arrived, as this was before official record-keeping was initiated . . . James was a lock laborer. … he could save the money to put himself through medical school. After becoming a doctor, he travelled to England in 1914 for further studies. …
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… to temporarily leave the country to register with an immigration official prior to their departure. The implementation of the duty only …
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… My brother, Rolf, and I left from Antwerp on April 20, 1952 in the SS Leerdam, … in Halifax May 1, 1952. We were told that it was the last voyage for this ship. Some joked and said the one before was probably its last … exchanged into dollars, 4 Marks to the dollar, and $10 was what we had officially on arrival. On landing in Halifax on May 1st, we had some …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 2, 2020) Introduction Travellers approaching … or French. [3] In recalling his forty years as a Canadian customs official, J. Earl Donnan notes that during the 1930s travellers had …
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… Officer-Rear Gunner GALLANT, P/O Joseph Ulysse Edmond - Distinguished Flying Cross - No.432 Squadron – Ulysse Gallant, fondly known to his friends and family as ‘Les’, was born in Moncton New Brunswick in …
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… March 18 to November 12, 2017 Canada: Day 1 is our Canada 150 project, supported by RBC Foundation , that brings to … of immigrants’ “Day 1” experiences. Curator's Tours: Transcript Welcome to Canada: Day 1. This exhibition looks at the very first day an … when they arrive in Canada. Your first day in a new country, it’s an official milestone, but it’s also a personal milestone and this show …
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… Italians were considered ill-suited to the pioneering lifestyle. Official immigration policy was aimed at settling farmland on the … War Measures Act , approximately 31,000 Italians living in Canada were officially classified as enemy aliens. Italians and other “enemy … salami, and sausages, only to have them confiscated by immigration officials. Once immigrants landed in Canada and were processed by …
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… comes that you only pray that God will show you the way; at least this is the way it was with us. Under God’s guidance and blessing we … which had 1400 passengers and 500 crewmembers, to go to our new land Canada. The Atlantic Ocean can be pretty rough going in the winter so … given to Tanta Mina (Dad’s oldest sister). It sure would have been nice to have money as we saw other people buying ice cream and other …
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… the passengers that we were crossing the Strait of Gibraltar and this would be the last piece of land we would see for a few days until … full of immigrants. We moved along until we got to the immigration official that finally stamped our passports with the stamp that said … us. My grandfather had passed away by this time. One of the uncles has actually gone back with his kids in the 80's to live in Italy. My …