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  • Jack Teake Hallema
    My story is very similar to many others - in the first few months if there has been a road back I would have walked back home - no money, no family, no language. The first farm I worked at he could not pronounce my Dutch name so the farmer said "I will call you Jack" and that is what it has been …
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  • Robert Aiken
    Took the train to Montreal, only stayed a week. Then left to Toronto, stayed in Toronto for two weeks. Left for London, got a job for a couple of months. Then I got a job at General Steele where I learned how to build refrigerators. I stayed there until I retired. I am 85 years old now, next year I …
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