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… Halifax Date of Arrival: March 23, 1954 Age on Arrival: 32, 29, 5 My parents, Karl Friederich Herb, Anna Katharina (Annekathe) Theresia Sterzenbach Herb, and my brother, …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, May 8, 1945, marked not only the beginning of the return home from … European backgrounds. Almost all of them landed at Pier 21. “...My last papers were checked and Orwell, who could wait no longer, came …
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… refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination … system . As part of the re-evaluation process, the federal government commissioned three successive reports concluding that Canada’s refugee … and one Guyanese citizen of Indian heritage) who had each claimed convention refugee status upon their arrival in Canada. Challenging …
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… May 9, 1955 My mother, myself, my sister and baby brother came to … from our bedroom window on College Street which has become many years ago "Little Italy". I was difficult for my parents to raise 5 children. …
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… and grandpa, who lived in Canada, thought it was a good time for me to come over to here and have a chance to look the other side of the … my mother at that time more than any other. I did my best to overcome my problems, made some friends and finished my program on time in …
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… grew up in China worked there, retired there and it never came into my mind that I would live in Canada someday. All things were changed because of my daughter. She graduated from a famous University in Beijing in 1996, … from University of Toronto for her master degree, so she left us. My daughter got her first job in Toronto in 2000, then she got married. …
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… in a factory as a labourer. It was a hard job for him, but he never complained. I also worked there too, for one summer. When metal is …
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… My husband Cpl. James Reid Paton arrived two days ahead of me on the Ile de France, a troop ship. I sailed from Liverpool. The day after I got on the train to go to the ship the railroad went on strike … we got closer to inhabited areas, little towns etc., the locals would come and wave to us. Sometimes the train would stop and some of the …
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… we are not allowed to go out of the camp, not allowed to work. It seemed like a prison. If you need to go to the hospital, the police take …
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… and a couple of years later we got engaged. I was now starting to become really hesitant to go back to Mexico … many things changed and my … the toughest stage. There were many cutbacks and re-allocations at the company where I was working. My fiancé’s mother was very ill and moving … want to take the opportunity to tell my son that it wasn’t easy to come to Canada and leave so many memories, friends and family behind, …