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Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) saw the vessel that would take him and his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the Netherlands upon the Groote Beer …
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Handsome Canadian Soldier-Meets-Pretty Scottish Lassie It was during the terrible times of WWII when our parents met. Our dad, Wilfred Raymond Webb , born on Dec 14, 1918 in Bishopton, Quebec, was first stationed in England. It was at the time of the Blitz when Hitler bombed London, and he was …
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Wilfred and his wife, Nancy Clouthier pictured. Wilfred and his wife, Nancy Clouthier, on their wedding day Wilfred and friends during his years of service Wilfred and friends during his years of service … Cpl Wilfred Claude …
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Nancy Somerville was only a teenager when she met Wilfred Clouthier , a corporal in the 21st Division of the Governor General's Footguards of Canada, still himself a young man, in the fall of 1945. The Second World War was nearing completion and Wilfred's armoured division had been stationed in …
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Private Raymond Francis McLeod …
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Frank and Maria …
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Faye C. Medjuck …
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Thomas Maksymchuk was born in Ukraine on January 15, 1917. He immigrated to Canada in June, 1930 with his parents, Andrew and Anna Maksymchuk , who had changed the date of his birth on his documents (October 6, 1918) in order to have him travel at half fare. In 1942 he voluntarily enlisted for WWII …