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… Trijn Steenbergen were born and grew up in Koekange, a small town not far from Meppel in Drenthe, an eastern province of Holland. Frits was … bus took us with all the kids (Hank was six, Jake five, Helen almost four, and Susan was two) and our suitcases, to Rotterdam a few days … two girls. Opa and Oma Lopers and Oma and Opa Steenbergen were able to come along on the bus to Rotterdam to send us off. When we got to the …
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… Otherwise I think everything was at least as good in Canada. For me I was almost like a non-immigrant in many respects. As a child I visited Canada so I knew it was right across the border. Even when my … gave me the money to buy a car, I shopped around and found the best price was in Windsor. So we bought my car in Windsor rather than …
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… So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … … 10 days, we reach Halifax, and the ship finally stops rolling back and forth. Now I understand why Cristoforo Colombo kissed the ground when … lived a good life. I was able to go to university. But we all paid a price. My parents left Italy when they were young to give us a better …
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… in Bolivia. It is a developing country with many challenges to overcome. Often people did not agree with the decisions of the government … I remember one day, because of the protests, we had to close our doors for almost a month. It was hard to keep business going. We used to buy … us. We know that as a first immigrant generation we have to pay the price, but this price is cheap in comparison to all the great things …
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… Mitic, Trudy. Canadian By Choice . Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press Ltd. 1988. Elliot, Una. “Comparative Roles of People of Italian … Letters of Willem de Gelder 1910-13 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1973. Ganzevoort, Herman. The Last Illusion, Letters from Dutch … G.H. Dutch Peoples of the Maritimes . Tantallon , Nova Scotia: Four East Publications. 2000. Ginn, Edith M. “Rural Dutch Immigrants in …
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… Chairperson Cynthia Price Verreault Montréal, Quebec Vice-Chairperson Vivek Sood Halifax, …
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… one night while she was in Sick Bay. Her Artillary Officer Capt. Price was killed. She was lucky that she had fallen ill. The Canadian …
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… gebeuren een beetje verzachten. Hoe wel zulk een levens stap reeds jaren te viren is opgezet en voor bereid dan toch nog is ‘t scheiden en … de vriende venters en een van familie. Ja als men niet meer spreken kan, zegt men het met bloemen. Dit zullen we dan ook nooit vergeten bij …
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… still hoped to return to her home one day, her family decided to come to Canada in June 1955. “…one was in Montreal, and the others were here in Ottawa. So they convinced my in-laws, they all came before us. A few years …
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… and Articles Abucar, Mohamed H. “Italians.” People of the Maritimes . Four East, 1991. Acharya, Madhaui and Tom Yew. “Martin Makes Amends for … Heart and Soul; Calgary’s Italian Community . University Of Calgary Press, 1999. Gabaccia, Donna R. and Franca Iacovetta. Women, Gender, …