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… NS. Ever since I heard about the creation of this new historical site I've been on a mission. You see its been some 46 1/2 years since … and want to tell you the story of our journey. Most of my recollection comes from my mother. It's fascinating to listen to her stories. On … This was probably due to the fact that my grandfather (on my mother's side) , who was already waiting for us in Canada, booked our trip …
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… Pier 21 June 1, 1948 Stanislaw Sokol was a young forester working in the Bialowieza Forest of Poland. He enjoyed his life but that all changed on March 20, 1939 when he was called up …
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… and Douglas, the 19-year-old Canadian, became a regular whenever his ship was in the Firth of Forth. Both the Boyle family in Canada and … Church in Bathgate. Doug was back at sea in April of 1944 when his first daughter, Elizabeth (Beth), was born at St. Mary’s Nursing … because fancy fabrics were unobtainable during the war. (That robe has become the family christening gown, worn so far (2012) by 15 Boyle …
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… their first impression of a "new hometown" was sitting on a bench outside, all wanting to go back to Wales. They spent the morning/afternoon … charged $5.00. The following morning Jess Radcliffe took them to the south side of the McLeod River. The river was starting to break up and they had to jump from one piece of ice to the other to cross. Once on the north side of the river Jack …
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… on immigration to Canada in 1920, taken from John Leyten’s memoirs “A present of my past to your future” Written 1975-7 There were some people, relatives to my Dad, and they came over from … would have been some trouble. Anyway, my Dad, he fell for it, I guess he said there was no future for young people in Holland, and even this …
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… in Betty Jean Barnhill's Canadian Studies 4400 project entitled: The Stories of Four English War Brides Who Adapted to Canada: How the … Canadian Ordinance Corp. and drove trucks etc. during the war. Barb said that George stayed in England until after D-Day and the troops …
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… jeeps (one of which I drove up and then down the steps at the Old City Hall in Toronto during a Victory Loan gathering of thousands of … are here." I drove many out-of-town trips in Staff cars or delivered mail in a panel truck to Camp Borden (west of Barrie, Ont.), drove … the 139 C.W.A.C. who went overseas. And it was no romantic thing! They said, "You're not going to London. You're going to No. 1 Static Base …
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… PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started before … in after school just in time for a cup of tea and a sticky bun. The President was a Canadian whose name is Mrs. Bleech, and in the Parish … pay for high school fees, or smart enough to pass the entrance exams. (I guess I wasn’t.) Anyway, I had just started work at the Boy’s …
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… RACCONTO DI VITA: CANDIDA FRANCA IACCINO (dedico questa mia storia ai miei figli e nipoti) Era un mio desiderio ritornare al Porto di Halifax, avevo un ricordo vago e triste. Così il primo di luglio …
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… THE DIARY OF A LITTLE FINNISH IMMIGRANT Dear Diary, The First Year in … with a shrill whistle and is puffing on towards Helsinki. Raili said she doesn't want to go and she just whispered to me that we should … corner by the train window. Äiti won’t stop crying and that makes me sad. She feels very bad about leaving Mummi, because she’s Mummi’s only …