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… Nancy Somerville was only a teenager when she met Wilfred Clouthier , a corporal in the 21st Division of the Governor … England to escape detection by the German air force. They met by chance in High Wycombe and quickly fell in love. Not long after, on December 29th of 1945, the two were wed at St. Mary's Star of …
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… DeBoard who were living in Iroquois, ON. Eddy was in the Canadian Army and became a good friend of my father at the end of the war. After a couple of weeks working at the Seaway Project, I found … resulted in getting a Technologist degree in architecture as well. I met my wife, Cornelia Arkeveld, late 1959. She was 14 years old when …
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… Transcript I came to Canada and then, I chose to stay. I did not come as an immigrant but I became one. I was successful and happy in my … him. Everyday is an adventure in cultural misunderstanding. He has become the father my daughter never truly had and our little family has …
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… four girls, and we were always discouraged by close relatives and the community for only having girl children. My aunts would say, why does … my bachelor in fisheries sciences. I got the Best Student of the Year medal when I graduated. Always I wanted to be the top in the field I … it change my father’s mind? But he said to her, I don’t want her to come back one day and say, you didn’t let me study further. After my …
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… Haitian boy and girl so I had Haitian siblings and together we went to Canada. Living in Canada was hard - it was like a fairy tale, but I was the strange beast … The Life of a Can-Haitian by Fraser …
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… water view, nothing to do except laze in the sun and read – yet I find myself confused, not sure whether to make Florida my permanent home. Is it time to move again? – and again for a man? I … a Catholic by strict Chinese parents. As an only child and a girl, my parents were especially protective – I was never allowed to go out …
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… 14, 1948 Author: Jennie Humbert, daughter Stanislaw Maciejewski, my father was born on a farm close to Poznan, Poland in a village … brought to the Poznan area of Poland in order to occupy the land. On May 12, 1945, the war over, displaced persons from the war were brought … and initially ate very little but others ate too much and died. After the war, Stan worked as an apprentice in a barber shop from …
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… for, you know, things like that. So it was um—yeah, it started to become—normalized, I guess, is what you’d call it. We weren’t feeling as … Flora, Trinidad and Tobago. Santa Flora was a town owned by an oil company and Tony’s father worked as an x-ray technician at the oil company’s medical centre. After graduation, Tony also began working for the oil …
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… Brain Mark, Edna and Keith Brain’s Journey to Canada November 8, 1948. My wife Edna and I and our eleven months old son, Keith, left the … man and his son. The Aquitania sailed from Southampton on November 9. After we got over being seasick we began enjoying our journey. What we …