• Michael Supino
    … 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 …
  • Janos Maté
    … Families 1956 From Stalin to Kellogg’s Cornflakes By: Janos Maté Had it not been for Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin my older brother … have been delayed by some 35 years until the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc in 1989. But then the lives of people are so …
  • Behind the Story by Kathy
    … me about being in bed in the middle of the night and hearing bombs go off, and how they had to flee their homes, and how they barely escaped … to life. And walking through the streets, I thought about how it was so cool that I was really there. In my last week of high school, I was … mind wondering what it could be about. I wasn’t sure if the call was good or bad. When I answered the phone I found out that I would be the …
  • Hazel L. West
    … 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 …
  • The Francesco Supino Family
    … 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 …
  • Operation Parasol: Urgent need, swift action
    … marks the 25th anniversary of the resettlement and repatriation of Kosovar refugees. Approximately 7,000 Kosovar refugees fled the former … into Canadian society. It will also include a set up of a military cot used at the bases to quickly settle the refugees. “We came here … the airplane. Here is so nice. The people is really nice. It’s very good people, very good place. But home is home.” Nita quoted in …
  • George and Geoffrey B.S. Johnston
    … I gave the matter much thought and tried to persuade my best friend to come with me. His parents would not agree to let him go, so it was off to Canada by myself. I left my home town of Kirkcaldy, Fife on … George and Geoffrey B.S. Johnston …
  • Pauline and Armand Dubue and Family
    … 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 …
  • Reinhard, Anna Lehmann
    … 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 …
  • Lieutenant Walter Melvin White
    … "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 …