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… Single Men and Women December 9, 1955 – Ryndam Born Melchior Franciscus … 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 …
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… Mum’s story Our mother, Janet Black Thomson, was born 10 January, 1922 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. She was the youngest of four … (Rae), especially after the death of their elder brother, Robert, in 1934. In 1940 she began training as a nurse, following the example of Ella, …
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… boarded the CN train to Winnipeg. The two sisters left Halifax two weeks later and were reunited in Winnipeg. The train trip to Winnipeg … to say ice cream in English. Mom’s Dad got off the train in Quebec to buy some food, but missed the train, so now the family was even more … retired. On the 50th anniversary of her arrival at Pier 21, Mom wrote: “We have had such a rich and full life. I feel ever so grateful to my …
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… Anton Warelis was born on February 9, 1897 in Nataly, Poland to Vincenti and Ewa Warelis . Like many of the young men of his era he … World War II had just ended and the only people that were able to buy a tractor were soldier returning from the war. Finally they were …
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… Berthold Herman (Bert) Seiler, 1911-2004 We will remember Berthold Herman (Bert) Seiler as a devoted husband and … during this period of inflation, which extended from 1914, when the WWI broke out, to 1923, when Germany's monetary system collapsed. In … they ran to the nearest store with their sack full of banknotes to buy anything they could at any price. In their frenzy, they paid …
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… was two and a half and Liviana celebrated her five month birthday when we arrived in Canada. We travelled by train to Venice where we had to … weather. As soon as we arrived in Genoa we set sail, making our way eventually to the Atlantic Ocean. I was terribly seasick, and for …
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… Welcomed and Welcoming As I awoke in my upper bunk I immediately noticed the difference. … the night she was sent down to the grocery store by her mother to buy some bread. On her way home all of the sudden she was engulfed by …
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… and to show appreciation for the impact she had on all of our lives as we studied and learned, we, her students are proud to share her story with Pier 21. Any ongoing … National Opera came to Halifax with her family from Riga Latvia by way of Paris in 1954. They chose to stay in Halifax because they loved …
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… England in 1946 as a war bride married to Harold Vacheresse from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. They made their lives there and raised three children …
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… In the summer of 1956, while working at her parent’s bar in the town of Fagagna in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of northeast Italy, a young man …