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… Courtesy of Jeanne Beker. Many people in Canada and beyond know the name Jeanne Beker, who from 1985 to 2012 hosted Fashion Television , an internationally broadcast television show. Jeanne Beker fondly … trunk arrived in Canada by ship at Pier 21. They worked and saved to buy a home for their family. The trunk sat in the cellar of that home …
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by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 21, 2021) “Conditions are so much different out here from what you have in the East” Immigration Facilities at Victoria, British Columbia The history of immigration facilities at the port of Victoria, British Columbia, extends from the mid-nineteenth …
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… by daughter Jane David Gordon Pettifer, his wife Sheila Doreen (Bradwell) and three children: Jane (5), Anna (4) and Bob (3) took the train from Quebec City to Peterborough, Ontario to stay in a cottage in Bewdley on Rice Lake until we could buy a farm - my Dad's dream. My grandparents, William Alwyn Bradwell …
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… They were robbed on the ship to Canada and quarantined when they arrived at … my mother wouldn’t let me either. She said that’s not the right way to do it. So anyway, that’s how we decided to come to Canada.” The … A Mother and Daughter Recall Frightening Days in Quarantine …
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… Sarah Theresa Roberts (Quinn) left her home in Wicklow County, Ireland to work in the factories … the remainder of his life in that same home overlooking the Chaleur Bay watching the train go by daily. Sarah enjoyed raising her five … Sarah enjoyed providing a feast for her family as the years passed by… there was never an open space on a plate, unlike her earlier years. …
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… I don't quite believe it, I'm actually going to Pier 21, Halifax NS. Ever since I heard about the creation of this new historical site I've been on a mission. You see its been some 46 1/2 years since I've …
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… Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child of Esther … POWs - one in particular was very young and frightened, quite a sweet boy, she said. In late November 1944 Mother travelled to Richmond (in Yorkshire) to attend a friend’s wedding. She had been sent to …
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… Anna and Pietro Massari arrived in Halifax at Pier 21 on December 13th, 1953 with their two children … her 30 th birthday, together with Pietro and their two sons, they were received by brutally cold weather with piercing winds and vast … anything, we have it all here in Canada”, and the lack of money to buy all that was needed turned out to be a rather large irony. Through …
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… to Canada mean to Morris Ladenheim in 1935? For a 7 year old boy, it meant being separated from his extended family including his … old mother Chippa had $20 in her pocket, and each child had $5. They were amongst the 404 3 rd class passengers (there were also 355 tourist … camps that his mom’s sister Elka and her family were imprisoned in, with only Elka surviving. He learned of the escape from a camp by …
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… by Siniša Obradovic, Oral History Researcher The Oral History Collection … in order to learn about immigration through first-hand accounts. We seek to represent the diversity of the country’s population in our … Language as a Pull Factor for Newcomers to Francophone Minority Communities …