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… in a family of ten. I was fifteen years old when I immigrated with my parents, one brother and four sisters to Canada in 1953. Three … The journey was rather pleasant. We experienced only one storm in the mid Atlantic. Some passengers got seasick, and a few donated their … We left the boat and stepped on Canadian soil about 3pm that day. After walking around Halifax for a few hours, we boarded the train for …
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… mill. His first trip was for a year on a work permit and his second may have been for six years or more. We make these assumptions based on … separation of birth dates of the children. When he returned to Poland after the First World War in 1918 after his second trip to the USA, he …
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… Sparkuhl (née Hund) was born in 1929 in Speyer in the Rhineland. They met after the Second World War and were married in Speyer in 1949. They … children, Joachim born in 1950, and Rudy born in 1952. Germany in the mid-nineteen fifties was still a divided country, under military … to be a distinct possibility. It seemed a good time to be elsewhere. I can recall my parents listening unhappily to news broadcasts on a large …
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… My brother and I traveled as Italian citizens with Italian passports. … in Copenhagen but was of Italian origin and was not allowed to become a Danish citizen this rule passed on to his children and on to us. I had never met my parents till I came to Canada. My father was employed and lived …
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… the Oulu area of Finland when her older sister Jenny encouraged her to come to work as a domestic in in a family home in Toronto. Lauri and Iida met several months later at The Church of all Nations on Queen Street … friends and relatives.Many newcomers met their future spouses here. After meeting and courtship Lauri and Iida were married in 1929. …
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… Single Men and Women My name is STEVEN (ISTVAN) ERDOS I was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a Jew, I went through the war- years in Hungary, and after the war, when the Russians occupied Hungary, I decided to escape. …
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… My mother and father, Lawrence J. Hebert, met when the troops were being gathered in Lincolnshire in preparation … like a huge black cloud moving over the land, turning day into night. After the war, my mother remained in England to care for her father, …
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… father enlisted in the army and was shipped to the Middle East. He assumed he wouldn't see his son again until after the war, assuming that … he would disembark from, reading her body language to see if she seemed to truly care for him. As she put it, "When he figured I had had …
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… father enlisted in the army and was shipped to the Middle East. He assumed he wouldn't see his son again until after the war, assuming that … he would disembark from, reading her body language to see if she seemed to truly care for him. As she put it, "When he figured I had had …
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… It began with an eight-minute walk through a park, along the Dartmouth Commons, to the bus terminal. Both Saïd and Ghita had seen snow before, … so, they continued their mission. A couple of hours later, shopping accomplished, grocery bags in hand, they awaited the Uber they had … learned he had only been in Canada for a few months himself. He had come to Halifax from war-torn Ukraine. Saïd and Ghita have adjusted to …