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… tune that went like this: “C’erà una casetta piccolina in Canada, con tanti pesciolini et tanti fiori di lilà, e tutte le ragazze che passavano di là, dicevono che bella la casetta in Canada”. This is how I thought of our home, a beautiful, loving, little house surrounded … at the young age of 36 from gangrene, leaving my grandmother to care for the children ranging in age from newborn to 13. To earn a living, …
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… I was born in Best, Noord Brabant, Netherlands, the second youngest in a family of … fifteen years old when I immigrated with my parents, one brother and four sisters to Canada in 1953. Three brothers and a married sister had …
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… 16, 1958, our daughter Silvana Caterina was born in Toronto. Today we have five wonderful grandchildren: Adriano 21, Mila 19, Vasil 15, … and Mila and Vasil are my son's. Our son Mauro has been teaching high school for 22 years. Our daughter Silvana has been teaching for 4 … My father-in-law bought a house for $11,300 at 229 Concord Street, west Ossignton, south of Bloor St where we went to live for ten months. …
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… Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t … kind of situation. But it’s because I was very, you know, I have a best, I have a friend also there. And then, all I remember was my mom … it’s, like once they left their homeland, and then they were waiting for a week or two weeks or three weeks and they were going back to get …
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… provincially or federally legislated privacy laws. This means that we have to use other ways, which tend to be less detailed and can lead us down the wrong path or to “dead ends.” However, not every … give me as to where they might be would be gratefully received. With best regards Malcolm Lewendon After reading Malcolm’s email, I began to …
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… 13, 1964 Age on Arrival: 21 My Immigration Voyage from Scotland to Canada At the age of 21, I made the decision to leave Scotland to get … Rosevale Street Primary School, ranking 3rd in my class. As a young boy I played soccer in the streets of Partick. I completed a 6 year … married my step-father, to give me a better life. He was my father’s best friend and promised to care for us and together they had my …
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… to do this honour had just gotten a job and could not take the day off. In the 1930's conditions were tough in Germany with many people … stand in as a bridesmaid. The bridegroom was from the military and his best man was asked to pick up the intended bridesmaid in a horse drawn … they were Aryan (Hitler was in power by this time) and they had to have enough furniture and household goods to set up a home. All these …
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… is wildly different. But as diverse as our genealogy research can be, one thing that comes up constantly is the regret that people … their family members about their lives and stories when they had the chance. Too often we take our loved ones for granted, or forget that … a person who did; history is much closer than it feels. When I was in high school I had to write a short story about Prohibition and decided …
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… in early 1952, aboard the Zuiderkruis (Southern Cross). They had four small children, myself the youngest at two weeks (Carla). Their sons, Gary, Hubert and Hank, were aged four, three and one, respectively. A year later their youngest son Jack … describing Canada as the land of milk and honey, felt that the best thing to do was to go overseas. The voyage across the Atlantic on …