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… Passengers await their train to destinations across Canada. The model of … the Pier 21 building (bottom), the immigration annex (top) and railyard. Look closer There are many details that open up a portal into a … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the …
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… Passengers await their train to destinations across Canada. The model of … the Pier 21 building (bottom), the immigration annex (top) and railyard. Look closer There are many details that open up a portal into a … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the …
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… Entry: Pier 21 Date of Arrival: November 16, 1951 Age on Arrival: 20 May it be known that I, Hans Escher, was born on Sept. 3, 1931 to Adolf … der Stein, in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, the eldest of nine children. My parents were of German stock and nationality. In 1935, during the …
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… by Doreen Motz for VW for Gunner Roy F. Ludwig Speech made to children in 1994: ‘I am very honoured to speak to you on this Remembrance Day because, you see, I do remember… In … War Cemetery at Beny-Sur-Mer in Normandy, France. I went there to visit the grave of Gunner Roy F. Ludwig of the Canadian 12th Field …
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… Single Men and Women Veendam On May 23rd 1930, I was born in a small village in the northern part of The Netherlands. At the time of my birth I had 3 siblings. A brother and 2 sisters. At later dates 2 …
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… was born in Kastri, Greece on September 5th 1934, the 5th child of Demetrios and Aggeliki. Demetrios was a successful, hard working … raising 6 children with a huge garden that supplied healthy food all year around plus raising chickens and goats. Then war erupted and he … know what to do, he tried farming - didn’t work. He asked John, "would you like me to write to our relatives in Canada to sponsor you there to …
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… 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, a beautiful country with wide-open spaces. My parents were 55 years old when they decided to take 7 of their children, Sebastian 22, …
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… September 23, 1951 - Concetta; June 12, 1954 - Michele Age on Arrival: 26 - Concetta; 23 - Michele Born in the south eastern community of … Niagara Falls, Canada on September 23, 1951, at the age of 26. A few years later, she married Michele Fusillo who joined her in June 13, … We want to acknowledge and thank them for taking the risks they did to come to a new country, not knowing the language, not having work and …
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… The War-time Experiences of Iris May Cunneyworth (nee Stovell) A War Bride Remembers Iris Cunneyworth … to join with her husband in this new faraway land. It would be 22 years before she would re-unite with her parents and siblings on … This is her story: When WWII broke out in 1939, I was 18. Each night my family and I would spend many hours glued to the radio listening to …
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… which was published in a local book about immigrants "In Search Of A Better Life..." What was he thinking of that day in the … joy by his sister Emilia and her husband, George who had immigrated a year earlier, as part of a post war recruitment of immigrants in a … store in Kitchener, Forte's Grocery Store. For the next ten years, my parents would drive to this store, where they and other homesick …