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  • Antonio Marchese
    Antonio Marchese came to Canada in 1959 through Pier 21 Halifax, Nova Scotia with his brother Francesco. He is a Canadian citizen and enjoys his retirement with his wife, children, daughter-in-law, and …
  • Karpowich Frank Pauline
    In the spring of 1913, 26-year-old Frank Karpowich bid farewell to his family in Mlyniska, Poland, hopped a train to Hamburg, and boarded a ship bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was in search of greener pastures, spurred by nervousness about the hostile political climate developing within his …
  • Arvo Lige, son
    Arvo spent most of his life as a hay farmer and a bulldozer operator in Pitt Meadows, B.C. He was married with 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren when he passed away at the age of …
  • Maksymchuk Andrew Anna
    Epic struggles and enormous challenges faced Andrew and Anna Maksymchuk as they struggled to scrounge a living and raise a family under the oppressive regime of Soviet Ukraine. By 1930, after ten years of farming under ever-worsening conditions, Andrew had endured enough. He had heard about the …
  • Alfonso Catenaro
    Alfonso came to Canada in 1953, at the age of 18, to join his brother and work in construction. He was reunited not only with his brother Mario, but also with his sister Nanda, and his oldest sister Restituta, whom he had never met before that day in May of 1953. His intention was to work in Canada …
  • Walter Scott Browne
    Walter Scott Browne …
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    Christos and Angeliki Georgaras …
  • Giuseppe and Maria DiBartolomeo
    Giuseppe and Maria DiBartolomeo …
  • Stephanie Mansfield
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