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George (Sjouke, Jr.) arrived from The Tjerkwerd, The Netherlands on April 27, 1951 aboard the Georgic with his parents Sjouke and Anna Zwaagstra and younger brother Broer (Gerald). His older brother Pier (Peter) arrived at Pier 21 on March 29, 1950 aboard the Beaverbrae . See Sjouke and Anna …
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Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma (Van Der Laan) from Amsterdam, The Netherlands arrived at Pier 21 on July 12, 1954 aboard the Waterman with their daughter Gerda and son Jan. Geraldine (Gerda) married George Zwaagstra on July 27, 1957. See George S and Geraldine G Zwaagstra > See Sjouke and Anna …
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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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George Gerben Bergsma …
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Enrico, Maria Di Ciocco …
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John, Rose Marie Melnyk …
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Luigi Lolli …
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JoAnne Potter nee Vanderheyden I was born May 21, 1940 in Beek & Donk, Holland. After WWII devastated our country, my parents made the decision to immigrate to Canada in 1948. There was much preparation for a family to make such a journey. There were two sets of klompens (wooden shoes) made for …
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My husband, Carl Fulford , and I were married in 1943 in Dundee, Scotland. My husband was with the Canadian Army (R.C.E.) and I was with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (W.A.A.F.). My daughter and I came to Canada on the Queen Mary in July 1946. We travelled by train to Kirkland Lake in Northern …
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I was born in Volhynia (which was a province of Poland at the time, now it is Western Ukraine), in 1936 of ethnic German parents. My ancestors emigrated to Volhynia from Central Poland where they were born in the 19th century. In 1939, after Russia and Germany partitioned Poland, we were resettled …