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  • Countless Journeys Podcast
    … of Countless Journeys is presented by Air Canada , Canada's airline for welcoming newcomers home. How Gode Katembo Uses Soccer to Build Community - Gode …
  • Reproductions, Use and Loans
    … Provide as much information as possible about your request and how you will use the items. Licenses will be issued for requests as …
  • Eva Kende nee Varadi
    … Families 1956 The journey began with a trip to a luggage shop to buy 2 bags to hold our most prized worldly possessions. The revolution … from friends and relatives who safely made it to Austria. Mother’s best friend Mariska, a decisive leader, her husband and daughter were … in this trek to the unknown. It was decided that the five of us will have to rent a hotel room near the railroad station the night before so …
  • Stanley Sape Vander Meulen
    … Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of … The name is common in Holland because of the many windmills built for flood-control in that low-lying country. Such generic last names … community, and a well-known wood-working industry that produced high-end furniture, wood-laminate beams, and aircraft parts. More …
  • Koster
    … The following is the story of the Koster family. Why and how they came to Canada and how they managed in their new country. The … Klazina Koster-Cudnohufsky. The original idea was that the 2 oldest boys [twins] would go alone. They wanted to be farmers and if your … visiting from Canada, that there was lots of land there and easy to buy. So that was where they wanted to go. When they went to The Hague …
  • Conrad, Joanne Cats
    … from Holland to Canada as told to me by my mother and father. I do have some memories of the journey though I was only 3 years old. Before … size of the packing crate. There was much crying as family and friends wished them well. The departure day arrived and Mother's family took us … mothers and their sick children, with washing diapers and cleaning as best they could. It was 14 days at sea before arrival at Pier 21. She …
  • Lesson Learned by Yvonne
    Time 0:03:46 Transcript When I was in high school, my parents put me to a private school run by nuns and had to wear a uniform. My parents chauffeured me back and forth to school. As a teenager, my parents did not allow me to date boys. I rebelled. I became pregnant at the age of 18. When my belly …
  • History
    … was an important waterway from pre-Roman times. The Magyars, who would come to be known as Hungarians, travelled from the foothills of the … Peoples, Nandor F. Dreisziger explains that these historical factors have made it difficult to define just who is a Hungarian. Since the … Revolution in 1956. Pier 21 was one of the entry points which welcomed many of these Hungarian immigrants, particularly the large group …
  • Corporal Leonard Palmer
    … Grade “B” and began to receive Tradesman’s Rate of Pay. On May 26, 1944 he was transferred to No. 8 Sub-section and proceeded “on … Hospital Ship, No. 46. During that time period, the Lady Nelson made four round-trip crossings from Halifax to Liverpool and back. During …
  • Mario Chiarvesio
    … mines. In September 1951, at the age of 23, Mario travelled to Rome to visit the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare. At the … – Mario Pecile – who was from his hometown in Italy and would become a lifelong friend. A local family provided them with room and … afraid to let his daughter immigrate to Canada. Luigi always said the best flour you could make bread with was la farina manitoba. Little did …

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