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… my father, Francesco Supino, and older brother Antonio in Montreal. Southern Italy was an economically depressed region. Out father, with a growing family and limited resources, had no other option than to immigrate to Canada as countless thousands …
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… Why and how I came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful … with my high school to a mountain side south of Vienna from where we had to flee from the Russian army in April 1945 right across Austria in …
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… my father, Francesco Supino, and older brother Antonio in Montreal. Southern Italy was an economically depressed region. Out father, with a growing family and limited resources, had no other option than to immigrate to Canada as countless thousands …
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… 20-28, 1953 Tuesday Oct 20th departure day finally arrived. My fiancée had the use of her father's car for the trip to Rotterdam and Dad, Mother and my sister came along for the "waving out ceremony". The final goodbyes had to be said in the departure hall … through customs and check in. Dad thought that it would be a final farewell and was a bit down. I had no such thoughts and said some thing …
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… Leaving Home for Canada: When I finally got my telegram to go to London, my mother was upset but she bravely came, along with my good friend, to help me with the children. We said our tearful …
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… is better than nothing. In the early days of the Second World War, Geoffrey Edward Robinson of Ludlow in Shropshire was a private soldier, … Light Infantry, 4th Bttn. (T.A.) and after mobilization at the outbreak of war, was transferred to 429 searchlight regiment at … temporarily discharged from the R.A.F.! I cannot remember whether we had any choice but I was slated for North America. We had a short …
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… not the least bit interested when a friend I worked with asked me to go on a “blind date” with a Canadian who was in London, England on leave. He had met with another Canadian pilot and did not have a date. I …
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… came from. In 1945, before the Russian army came in, we were again moved west by horse and wagon and sometimes by train into … THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM A BOOK WRITTEN BY EDMUND LEHMANN ABOUT THE FAMILY'S EXPERIENCE IN CANADA: Going to Canada Sometime in late … through the Red Cross; it may have been the other way around but anyhow we started to correspond. In time the decision was made that we …
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… "Ellen" Blois of Gore. They resided in West Gore for 27 years and had four children: Donna (died at age 2), Delta, Donald, and Marilynn. … own words as told to his younger daughter Marilynn White. This Wall of Service plaque was placed by Marilynn in honour of her father … "It was in West Gore when a soldier stopped to speak to me just outside of Eddie Mason's hardware store. The soldier asked if I would …
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… from our home in Trevignano by a horse driven cart to the train station at Signoressa. On the farm cart there were five brothers, … accompany us by train to Genoa. Many of the people of the town, came out to wave us goodbye and that gave us a feeling of embarrassment and … to change some money, but the stranger stole the money my grandfather had. My grandfather, who was a gentle and generous person wanted to …