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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Ukraine Ship Name: Hellig Olav Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: April 5, … Age on Arrival: 17 In 1929, because of her youth,and travelling alone (she was sponsored by her aunt already in Canada), she was chaperoned by …
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… on July 18, 1923. Her parents were Reginald and Lillian Briggs. She has a younger sister, Diana Dilley, still living in England. In … carried across the Atlantic on the Aquitania. Arriving at Pier 21 (she was the first one off the ship) and driving to northern Nova …
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… age 21, Filippo Trento left Trieste, Italy bound for Halifax, Canada. He arrived at Pier 21 on March 21st, 1957 aboard the Saturnia. He left his entire family - 4 sisters, 2 brothers and his father to seek a better life in Canada. He did not know if he would ever see his …
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… am very honoured to speak to you on this Remembrance Day because, you see, I do remember… In September, when you were starting back at school … War Cemetery at Beny-Sur-Mer in Normandy, France. I went there to visit the grave of Gunner Roy F. Ludwig of the Canadian 12th Field … was six. My father joined the army in 1940. My sister was two, I was four and my brother was seven. My father sailed from Halifax on the …
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… landed at Pier 21 on the Aquitania in December, 1948. There were four of us, my mother and father, my little sister Tina, age 3 and … (including all the World War II years) while Mum tried desperately to keep us girls safe from all the bombing. Half of our house was bombed … other half and survived. My father had an aunt who lived in Toronto, so we headed there first, on the train, just like the car at Pier 21. I …
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… On December 31, 1958, Zio Mimi took us to Naples where we were to start a new voyage and adventure to our new home somewhere over the big sea. Zio Mimi would have been the most qualified to take us to the port because he has a car. When we boarded the big ship I could hear fireworks in the distance because it was New Year's …
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… Nikolajs Dambergs brought his family to Canada as a final flight from the oppressive powers of World War II. He brought with him his mother … time again. Nik, himself had achieved personal success in Latvia, as CEO of one of the largest textile companies in the Baltic area (Riga's …
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… feel different. A few years later my family went back to Ethiopia to visit our extended family. When they took me to church, I didn’t know … When I want to work with other Africans I am defined by the country I come from or by the tribe my last name comes from. There is so much … myself with a tribe or a specific African country. I want to be known for my ideas and my beliefs. We cannot overcome poverty, corruption and …
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… and J.P. Le Blanc. My husband, Stephen Astephen, was waiting for our four year old son, Francis, and me at the dock. We traveled that … welcomed at the Pier by the Red Cross and other organizations) as far as Truro by car -- next day up through New Glasgow, Antigonish, and … the Royal Canadian Legion. Then the Saskatchewan War Brides came to visit Pier 21 in 1985 and were joined by the Nova Scotia War Brides. …
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… For visitors past and present, some find this site unmoving. They give little thought to what the walls and their surroundings have … one of our summer students. It was a quiet day in the exhibition and she saw a man sitting alone on one of the benches in the Rudolph Peter …