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… I began these reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and … WRAF he had met. Then I thought I might begin by the entry in his well-worn small pocket diary with the entry on December 12, 1943 "Met Sadie …
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… for safekeeping. Travelling by peasant’s carts, by trucks and by commandeered barge through the war-torn countryside of Poland, the … staff elected to remove the treasures to France. Szczerbiec, the medieval Polish coronation sword. Credit: Consulate of the Republic of … and Stanislaw Zaleski throughout this odyssey, and, as Gordon Swager points out in his study, The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National …
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… my best after six languages, you know. Biography: Monybany Minyang Dau was born in Atar, Sudan in 1975. During the Second Sudanese Civil … Monybany Dau …
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… An excerpt on immigration to Canada in 1920, taken from John Leyten’s memoirs “A present of my past … so they were going to sail across the ocean as soon as possible. That day finally came and having sold everything that they couldn’t take … all the way to Calgary, Alberta, North America. So on the appointed day, we went to Antwerp, Belgium, where this big steamship was waiting …
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… at that time and my son, John, was born in September, 1944. The next day, Joyce gave birth to a daughter, Gillian. Joyce and I visited one … at very short notice and attend a prior meeting which was mainly to warn us of danger and discomfort which lay ahead. In fact, we were told … I was to present myself and my two children with a maximum of 40 pounds of baggage to a Military Policeman at Waterloo Station on …
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… Time 0:03:04 Transcript When I saw the doctor shaking his head, I got utterly confused and scared. He then … I had never been hospitalized before and I did not know what to do and who will be there for me when I cannot do anything for myself. After taking a deep breath, I remember how I … People Do Care by Eunice …
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… The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada Comité Canadian du Centenaire du … The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada • Comité Canadian du Centenaire du …
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… by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Canadian immigration history can be researched using a staggering variety of sources . There are … One of these individuals is Fenton Crosman, whose career with the Canadian immigration department spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s, at …
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… 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 …