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by Steven Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 21, 2021) “The problem is a vexing one” A Formal Agreement with the Government: the Privilegium Some of the earliest European agricultural settlers in Canada’s Prairie West were Russian Mennonites. Two disparate political events provided a crucial …
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… Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get … and slowly turning black from the lack of proper food. As a rebellious young teen, I wanted to get away from everything. The future was rather … was a very attractive idea. I was ready to take on anything anywhere else and accept all the consequences of my actions. My parents talked …
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… we were served turkey, vegetables, sweet and ice cream. The next day we had soup, Pork and stuffing, apple sauce, a sweet and ice cream … couldn’t get in England. She would have liked more but after paying 40 pounds each boat fare and 26 pounds each train fare, we had very little money to spare for …
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… by this institution is governed by the Privacy Act . This means that you will be informed of the purpose for which your personal information is being collected and how to exercise your … servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP …
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… I met my "husband to be," Albin Carl Norlander outside the YMCA in Sheffield whilst he was on a visit to relatives of an army … to a hostel in London where War Brides were gathered from various points in the UK before all were transported to Southampton to board … and after a couple of days we travelled by train to the hamlet of Hay Lakes. I still remember that the sight of the false store fronts, …
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… was an important waterway from pre-Roman times. The Magyars, who would come to be known as Hungarians, travelled from the foothills of the … known as the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. After World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated and borders moved once … after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Pier 21 was one of the entry points which welcomed many of these Hungarian immigrants, particularly …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …
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… that by 1851, the Irish Catholic population in British North America (i.e. United Province of Canada (Canada West and Canada East), Nova …
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… Mrs. Nancy Archibald, a War Bride, lives in Victoria BC. In August 2011, she celebrated her 90th birthday as well as the 65th anniversary of her arrival in Canada at Pier … warm day for traveling and we were getting stiff with sitting so long. (I forgot to mention that three other wives traveled with us from …
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… Historian (Updated January 13, 2022) “I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a …