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… Food Memories: A Journey Through Two Homes In support of our 2025 exhibition eat make share: a taste of … immigration we were thrilled to host recent NSCAD graduate and chef, Prince Churchill. During his residency Prince worked on Food Memories: A … Artist-in-Residence 2025 - Prince Churchill …
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… We often say that the War Brides followed their hearts to Canada, and so they did, but they were not the only ones. … find each other years later in Canada we have had the opportunity to hear a lot of love stories. I think of my favourites as snapshots, and the first image that comes to mind is …
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… “My life story would not have played out… if it wasn't for the kindness …
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… Lynn Smith MUNROE, ELMO HUGH April 10, 1921 - Oct. 22, 2008 WWII RCAF - PFF 405 SQUADRON As a young girl I was captivated by the stories that my Dad told me about his youth and wartime experiences. He was a natural story …
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… van der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years my senior, three sisters, Adre, Mien and Gre, then yours … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … Mels van der Laan …
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… MY FATHER - F/O Thomas Roberts [Bob] Millar RAAF Observer 422612 104 … of his school. He married my mother in January 1942 and enlisted in May 1942, being sent overseas to Britain, via US and Canada in March … Flying Officer T.R. Millar …
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… before the Halifax rail line was complete. [2] However, in the fifty-year gap between the completion of the railway and the opening of Pier … Quarters Despite the pressing need for a replacement, it was two full years after the original fire before a new building was ready . In … facilities. Unfortunately, the construction ran for several years. Just prior to the First World War, during the peak years of …
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… van der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years my senior, three sisters, Adre, Mien and Gre, then yours … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … Mels Fr. van der Laan …
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… Background: Though of mixed German-Dutch parentage, I grew up in Germany (Saxony); by the time I was 18, I had lived through the … detention camp by Soviets. We were liberated twice: first by the US Army, then by the Soviets (who received Saxony under the terms of Yalta). … thus I like working in the UK, though only menial jobs were open to me. I wanted to stay, but had to leave next spring but not before …
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… it was the beginning of a great adventure: this being their first time away from Canada. As they gathered on the decks assigned to them, a sense of anticipation was evident, as young minds vividly projected exciting pictures of what lay ahead of … in the memory of all those who were there. It does not matter that it may have been a recording. Someone on the shore was concerned about …