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… Evelyn May (Blackburn) DeLorey Daughter of Henry and Jane (Cullen) Blackburn Born March 15, … September 4, 1993 in Ft McMurray, Alberta Met her husband George Willis Renford DeLorey, a soldier with the West Nova Scotia Regiment at a … George and Evelyn DeLorey …
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… Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) saw the … his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the … killed and the Dutch were being blamed. When Dutch soldiers returned home, they were not appreciated. Between this and suffering from Post …
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… My grandfather Hugh Irenus Conway was an Immigration Officer at Pier 21 … sleeve blouse with a pleated skirt, my hands are folded in front of me. My maiden name was (Alana) Mader and my brother’s name is Richard … the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, at the age of 18. He served in the 8th Army Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. He was wounded a couple of …
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… to be a distinct possibility. It seemed a good time to be elsewhere. I can recall my parents listening unhappily to news broadcasts on a large old radio. I'm sure they didn't want us to experience the deprivations and dangers that they had lived …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction Welcome to my first blog here at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21! … over their competitors. Passengers making a transatlantic crossing in May 1945 aboard SS Duchess of Bedford (operated by Canadian Pacific …
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… marriage, that is…and I thought that one of the brief stories she told me about some events that preceded her immigration to Canada would be … that occurred in her picturesque Austrian town of Steyr. But first it may be appropriate to outline some introductory comments about her immigration to this side of the ocean extracted from my book " Pier 21 - 1951 Our Family’s Immigration To Canada by N.C. …
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… I visited Halifax Nova Scotia on July 15, 2003 where I spent an interesting morning touring and researching my arrival to Canada on the ship - Vulcania. We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction Canada is home to the … I. Leitch, “Irish Canadians,” Canadian Encyclopedia , last edited January 26, 2018, … and other essays on famine, its past, and its future,” ResearchGate (January 2015), 1. See … “3.5 - Where To Live?” [internal document], July 31, 2015, Reviewed January 26, 2017. ↩ …
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… giving an account of recent bombings and remarking, "now the Germans can swim across the English channel and invade Britain." In July, I … In August, therefore, I was totally surprised and shocked, when my mother told my sister, Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey , and later me, that we were leaving for Canada within forty-eight hours, with …