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  • Margaret S. Kydd
    … hours leave but he couldn’t confirm his being there for our wedding as D-Day had taken place and he was in a banned area, unable to make contact … his 10 days leave, in April 1945, we made arrangements for me to come to Canada. We felt if we waited until after the war, my departure …
  • Bruno V. Sinosic
    … John and Mark. In the year 2000 I had the great fortune (and a dream come true) to visit them and acquaint myself with the rest of the … For the most part, the voyage was uneventful. I remember, however, the day my faithful mouth organ fell overboard. It would be quite sometime … fast?" "When will I ever learn to speak this difficult language?" One day, while cleaning a table, a customer called me and asked me for …
  • Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri
    … Being Selected to Come to Canada - Madan Kumar Giri …
  • New perspectives: 25 years after our grand opening
    … groups who once passed through Pier 21; an immigrant, a refugee (more commonly referred to as a Displaced Person at the time), a Veteran, a … various people referred to Pier 21 as “Canada’s Ellis Island”. This comparison to New York’s famed port of immigrant arrival helped people … ceremony was a core part of the event, another continuing tradition. Becoming a Canadian citizen is a huge milestone in the immigration …
  • New perspectives: 25 years after our grand opening
    … groups who once passed through Pier 21; an immigrant, a refugee (more commonly referred to as a Displaced Person at the time), a Veteran, a … various people referred to Pier 21 as “Canada’s Ellis Island”. This comparison to New York’s famed port of immigrant arrival helped people … ceremony was a core part of the event, another continuing tradition. Becoming a Canadian citizen is a huge milestone in the immigration …
  • Antonio Romanello
    … Luigia Beninatto. Both were born in and lived in the village of Breda di Piave in the province of Treviso, Italy. It is also an account of … who supplied the factory, and then endless hours throughout the day and evening to supervise the stages in the cheesemaking process. … an interest in coming to Port Arthur, Virginio encouraged him to come and helped to arrange a sponsor (someone who would employ Dad for …
  • Elvira Romanello
    … Luigia Beninatto. Both were born in and lived in the village of Breda di Piave in the province of Treviso, Italy. It is also an account of … who supplied the factory, and then endless hours throughout the day and evening to supervise the stages in the cheesemaking process. … an interest in coming to Port Arthur, Virginio encouraged him to come and helped to arrange a sponsor (someone who would employ Dad for …
  • Max Margarete Hans Chris Schlechta
    … Germany was so that his children would be free from war, with no chance of Hans ever being drafted into the military. He was right, too. … Karlsruhe, about 200 km south of us, and sitting in a waiting room all day, in order to obtain the necessary stamps in our passports. In the …
  • Meta Echt and Marianne Ferguson
    … are things of which I may not speak, There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a … to speak of, because they have been so horrible; but the memory cannot die, and yet, it makes me sad to think of them. And even in such a … and hatred, people have dreams of freedom and liberty, which, may come true to some of them but may not come to others. We had our dreams …
  • Giovanni John Fabiano
    … and my two sisters. It was the first time we had something so new. The day we left was a difficult and emotional one. I adored my grandfather … what little belongings we had while we waited to take the train for a 2-day journey to Toronto, our new home. We started school one week … ended up eating so many of them to the point where I got sick. To this day, I still have an aversion to bananas! To add to this, my mother and …

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