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  • Fred Carter
    … remembers a Salvation Army man taking him to the train and buying him food for the train trip West. As his father was farming south of Moose … his mother but until his father received wages the family could not come to Canada. His mother Louisa Mildred and siblings George William … with the War Amps of Canada. In 1973 he received the Meritorious Service Award for his work with them and in assisting amputees from …
  • Madame Benoît’s Quebec Tourtière
    … to make and delicious.  George Showman , CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Image cropped. Step 1: Place all the ingredients in a saucepan except the bread crumbs. Bring to a boil and cook … manner. Step 3: Cool and pour into a pastry-lined pie pan. Cover the top with pastry. Bake in a 400 F oven until the top is well browned. …
  • Bufis, Resettlement by Khadar
    … day when I woke up in the houses made of twisted trees with plastic on top. Most people at the camp want to be resettled but it’s not in our … consideration. I called my wife to give her the good news. I stopped everything and hugged everybody to share my feeling. I left the …
  • Fleischer, Henny Karin Kaethe Eugen
    … shape in 1945 that my mother despaired of ever being able to find food to put on the table for her family, my father, an electrical … my first experience in a western city, I was accosted by a British service policeman. He, finding me with only East German identity … across Germany to Landau. On arrival there I received a royal welcome from the lady of the place where I was to work, who then promptly …
  • No eggs or butter? Baking during difficult times is nothing new.
    … to fulfill its commitments to England by providing a vast quantity of food supplies for troops and civilians. Therefore, from 1942 to 1947, a … a major impact on women, since they were responsible for purchasing food for the family. Their wholehearted participation in rationing … How did rationing work, exactly? The government would decide which foods would be sold in stores, how many a person could purchase, and …
  • Sergeant Charles Elliott Brown
    … Charles Elliott Brown Service # F67753 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps June 1940 to July 1945 To my Mother, Diane in memory of our favorite man "Charlie …
  • Argenide Monacelli Orsini
    … in France, Luxembourg and Germany. During the 1930's up to and including 1945, he was working abroad. He was working in Germany pre war in … to his stories and just imagine these mystical places he would recant his adventures throughout these early years. There was never any … It was good pay and the conditions were good. The accommodations and food were supplied by the Mine. The food was Canadian food and they …
  • Pietro Di Ioia
    … Told by his daughter: Maria Teresa Di Ioia PART ONE Reasons for immigrating to Canada: To look for work in … faces of relatives standing on the platform of the station to welcome them to this new land. Years later, my family recorded their first … to give thanks to God for the great blessing of family and for the chance to start a new life in this great land we call Canada. In …
  • Ethel Suarez
    … here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the citizenship paper and this—how I will say? I become a real person again when I receive that document. CB: What did … me. Let me free here. That you are here, that you belong to a community and you can do things for the community too. That was one of …
  • Yolaine Maudet
    … from French) YM : Yes (laughs), yes. Every time—the biggest file to complete is the permanent residency. There’s a medical section too: you … papers but couldn’t have them approved by Montreal immigration services; I had to go to the US to do the “tour de poteau,” then come back. So I could have taken the opportunity to go to see my family …

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