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… Bride, Mrs. Marjorie Barbara (nee Poole) MacBurnie, was interviewed Friday afternoon on January 25, 2002. She was born August 21, 1921 and … did many Canadian soldiers, George MacBurnie, stayed in England until D-Day, 1944. He was with the Canadian Ordinance Corp. and drove trucks …
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… Soon it was March 11, 1953, a warm and bright spring day and also the day we steamed out of Copenhagen harbour bound for an … city, and we enjoyed playing the part of tourists. The following day, we sailed north until we reached Norway's second largest port, … emigrants heading for Canada and U.S.A., and the realization must have come to a lot of folks, as the Norwegian coast slipped below the …
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… As a former British child war evacuee who came to Canada under the auspices of the Children's Overseas Reception Board … seemed to be falling as close as the next street. Late the following day, along with 351 other CORB evacuees, we embarked in the Orient …
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… My family is originally from Hardenberg in the Netherlands, and we immigrated to Canada in 1953. We … that year on the S.S. Waterman and arrived in Halifax on April 22nd, a day ahead of schedule. At the time, I was 10 years old, having been … to a man standing next to me: "Get that boy away from there" ["Haal die jongen daar weg"], which the woman then followed up with: "Where …
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… your stomachs, and you won't be seasick. I did and was fine for the 14 day trip! Lifeboat drills and life belts were very important. We even … keep our minds off the ever present threat of being lost at sea. Every day we were up on deck for lifeboat drills. The children were divided … of us, the healthy ones, walked the promenade deck several times a day, and stood at the rail watching the ships surrounding us on an …
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… The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada Comité Canadian du Centenaire du Génocide des Arméniens Հայկական Ցեղասպանութեան Հարիւրամեակի Գանատայի Մարմին … The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada • Comité Canadian du Centenaire du …
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… By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian For over a century, Canadian immigration authorities have used language proficiency as a … point of consideration in deciding whether a migrant is admissible to Canada. [1] This is not generally a controversial aspect of current Canadian immigration policy, but when the practice first emerged as an …
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… through Pier 21 in 1956. On October 21, 2000, 49 years to the very day that our first kinsfolk, Nicola Covelli, arrived at Pier 21 to … Mario Covelli, age 15, upon arrival, was put to work immediately. Today he is a proud Papa who came to this country with nothing and worked … of WWII; his return was a victory in itself: he participated in D-Day Normandy invasion; he was captured on D-Day Plus One; he saw …
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… – Waterman My story starts in the summer of 1951, when I went on holidays with my family to a resort in Holland called "Het Trefpunt", … my birthday March 28 (I turned 28), we became engaged. I promised to come to Canada as soon as possible. I did not consider myself an … with a mother and her very young baby, who would be asleep during the day. I remember the stormy weather. Lots of people missed the meals …
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… Rotterdam on August 3rd at 17.00 hours. I wrote a diary of the nine days on this ship: Monday August 3rd. – After a long wait we finally … see any sun in the morning and in the afternoon it became foggy. I can still not get over the fact that I missed the family on shore in … to Toronto yet but we will get them in Halifax. What do I do all day? Sitting, walking, reading, standing, hanging around, being bored. …