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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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… 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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… BSc 1951, geology and geophysics). There was no particular reason for me to leave the Netherlands. I had a good position at the National … who travelled through Canada on the massive Canadian trains. Imagine me, as a young boy reading in bed this fascinating story about a boy … then occupation. Then the country was liberated by the Canadians, in my case Regiment de la Chaudiere, then followed the encouraged …
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… 1936 in Tarcento, a town in the north-eastern Friuli region of Italy. My father was a carpenter who worked not only in Italy, but also in … seeing as I am the youngest of eight children (seven boys, one girl). After completing my studies in elementary school, I studied for another …
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… Our Family's arrival in Canada, 21 April 1957 Soon after the end of the Second World War our parents, Arie and Corrie … during the Second World War. Mom and dad were married in the middle of the occupation on 12 February 1943. Rita was born on 21 … rushed through paperwork and medical exams by a Canadian doctor in the Hague. Household goods were sold to neighbours and friends and the …
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… the sponsor's farm near Palmer Rapids, Ontario for about one year and after fulfilling all obligations of the sponsorship, moved to Ottawa. … grandfather to Mark, Chelsey, Bryan, Steven and Ian. Recollections of my Journey Following the end of the Second World War the economy in The …
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… WW1. As he was just 17 years old his family thought it best for him to come to Canada until he could get a passage home. His family and a … flying troopships across the Atlantic and down the coast of Africa. After the war was over, his father wanted him to return to England and … Muskoka and with Marjorie Palmer, the first Canadian girl he had met and with whom he had first stayed. After completing law at Oxford …
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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, …
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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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… unit at the Bangour Hospital near Edinburgh until her marriage on May 2, 1942 to Lt. Harry Lionel Mitcheltree RCE . Harry was from Calgary, Alberta, had arrived in England in the spring 1940 and met Hilda in London later that year. Following her wedding, Hilda …