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… a very excited Margot Tarajos. She asked if we would be open for her visit 363 days later. Margot was two and a half on New Year’s Eve in 1955 when her family arrived at Pier 21 and was ready to start planning a 60 th anniversary trip back. She wrote, “ We … New Year, Canadian Beer …
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… just close to Carberry. When the girls moved to Winnipeg, I would visit them on weekends. Their brother Joseph, would visit the girls too when he was hauling cattle. One time I didn’t have … the frog legs as a delicacy. I worked at the store and a museum there for 30 years. I raised five children. I now have 13 grandchildren, and …
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… reconstruction period, the Canadian Government wanted to fulfill its commitments to England by providing a vast quantity of food supplies for troops and civilians. Therefore, from 1942 to 1947, a system that … number of household members. To purchase rationed goods, they would visit a store, present a coupon for butter, and pay the required price. …
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… questions. It might seem like a trivial thing, dear visitor, but your questions are immensely important. They are invaluable in helping me do my job, and to ensure you get the most out of your visit. I thought I would take a moment and share the reasons I prize … so what shall we talk about? The answer to that often depends on you, dear visitor. Knowing your interests can help me present content …
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… by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Canadian immigration history can be researched using a staggering … aged, with deep-set serious eyes, and in his spare time is a gentleman farmer, chess player and a poet. He showed me a collection of his … make the best report possible. In contrast, there is Mr. M. He is a young man; his office is 100% ship-shape: and he is keen as a new blade …
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… it was so much less interesting then the ones I heard about during my visit to the Pier21 Museum. I changed my mind after reading through the … parts of Canada. My story is a little different. Not only did I come a different way, (by train) and from a different direction (from … of this big city, the first major North American city that I had a chance to visit. I stared with awe at the huge buildings, particularly …
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… I was met by my relatives at Union Station. Days later, I went to visit the nearest employment office to register my arrival. In January … travel and raising a family. I am thankful for the choice I made to come to this great country. Canada has given me opportunities and I … on January 17, 1968 I landed in the midst of a cold winter. On our visit, Antonietta and I walked through the building observing the brick …
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… 9, 1897 in Nataly, Poland to Vincenti and Ewa Warelis . Like many of the young men of his era he served in World War I and was hospitalized for nine months in Prague after sustaining severe injuries to his back and neck during the war. Zofia Warelis (nee Milcharek) was born on December 25, 1905 to …
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… five War Brides boarded a train in Lancaster, England. We were on the first lap of our journey to Canada. On the journey down to … saying, "Forever, forever". Fortunately I had the money to return if I wished, I had saved the money whilst working for Canadian Treasury … that night out, because it was too painful. My mother having died the year before I felt guilty regarding leaving my father and two brothers, …
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… Cowboys and Indians lived there. WOW! It sounded like a great place to visit. Subsequently one day in August I found myself leaving home with … had their own bunk and Squib (his nickname only 6 and smaller than I) shared a lower bunk, with our heads placed at opposite ends of the … the heavy waves. When attempting to walk along a corridor, one minute you were going downhill the next upward. Many of us became seasick. It …