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I remember coming to Halifax in the fall of 1953 and seeing the red coloured maples, yellow birches, greens and oranges. I thought I had come to a very special place - a magic land. I remember thinking life would be good in such a land. Life has been good to all of us here. Akky Mansikka … John and …
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Ewald and Ida Dylman …
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John da Silva …
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Why and how I came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful childhood my life changed with the end of the Second World War when we lost everything. Early 1944 I was evacuated with my high school to a mountain …
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In September 1956, my mother and father and three of us children escaped from Przunac, Croatia (which was then part of the communist Yugoslavian government) in my father's boat. My father took eleven individuals in the boat with our family and we traveled across the Adriatic to Ancona, Italy. Part …
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Werner Weerts …
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Lawrence Joseph Hebert November 27, 1920 - October 4, 2000 My father enlisted on June 16, 1941 and was discharged on January 26, 1946. He was in the first wave at Juno Beach on D-Day. That is all he would ever say. He wouldn't talk about his experiences. But, inevitably, every June 6th he would say …
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An Account of the Immigration of the Romanello Family to Canada from Italy in 1949-50. This is the story of Antonio Romanello, born on the 16th of June, 1915 of Giovanni Romanello and Elisa Rigato and of Elvira Romanello, nee Zaffalon, born on the 13th of May, 1915 of Luigi Zaffalon and Luigia …
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An Account of the Immigration of the Romanello Family to Canada from Italy in 1949-50. This is the story of Antonio Romanello, born on the 16th of June, 1915 of Giovanni Romanello and Elisa Rigato and of Elvira Romanello, nee Zaffalon, born on the 13th of May, 1915 of Luigi Zaffalon and Luigia …
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Aircraftsman 1 Siegmund Walisser …