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Families June 1953 – Groote Beer It was in the early fifties. There were a lot of people in Holland talking about "going to Canada." Many people were looking for a new start in life, a new adventure. My oldest sister Liz’s fiancé wanted to get married and immigrate to Canada to buy a farm. It was …
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Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get away from it all. Living in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done their utmost to shield us from the …
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Single Men and Women July 9, 1953 – Waterman My five day journey from Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the ship SS Waterman was smooth and without incident. The accommodation was that of a troop ship with male and female passengers separated, I believe ten to a cabin. Having been discharged from the …
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(Story told by her younger sister, Mary K. (Bowes) Astephen) Jean was 28 years old when she came through Pier 21 in February 1946. Travelling by rail from Halifax to New Westminster, BC with her son, Andrew, she began life in Canada living in the Old Vancouver Hotel where her daughter, Barbara, was …
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John, Irene and Renate Lazor …
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Country of Origin: Italy Date of Arrival: May 23, 1953 …
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Arie and Cornelia le Pair …
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Daphne Nita Fenton Lea …
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(My Husband) Natale Leardi His recollection of his experience on emigrating follows. Leaving family and friends at age 17, he and his mother Assunta Leardi left Naples for their one-week journey and landed in Halifax on July 25, 1963, 55 years ago. He remembers having to wake up each morning of …
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Date of Arrival: April 1959 …