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… in West Germany. It's been four months since we last saw our dad, Duro Sr. It was a cold, damp morning. We were all huddling together at the … nervous and anxious. My sister Bridgette, aged eight, my brother Duro, jr., aged four, Erika, our mother, aged 26, and me aged six. Once on board the truck, Mom said, "Let's all hold …
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… Argonaut (now Argonaut Cadet Training Centre), CFB Gagetown, 1999. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection … Bill Clinton and agreed to accept 5,000 Kosovar refugees. Despite past bureaucratic decisions, the policy surrounding the evacuation of … Canadian Forces Logistics Association , 2019, https://www.cfla-alfc.org/stories/op-parasol/; Canadian Armed Forces and Kelsey Berg, …
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… In 1778, the two sides met to discuss grievances and reparations. A peace treaty was signed in 1778, along with the offer of a wampum belt … throughout Great Britain. Saint John became the largest shipbuilding city in British North America (BNA) and the fourth largest in the … railway links while passenger travel brought people and trade to the city’s port area. Harbour at Saint John, N.B. (n.d.) Credit: Canada. …
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… Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
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… Media Release May 13, 2019 Halifax, NS Forgiveness, Family and Canadian identity: Mark Sakamoto in Conversation with Jeanne Beker Woven together through interviews with his maternal grandmother, Mitsue Sakamoto, and paternal grandfather, Ralph MacLean, Mark …
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… (Updated January 28, 2022) Aerial view of Ocean Terminals c. 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Collection … Halifax’s immigration facility, Pier 21, was designed to handle the passengers and cargo of large ocean liners, and so could also … that repatriated wounded Canadians . Victor Gray, a bandsman and stretcher-bearer who worked at the Embarkation Unit regularly, reflected on …
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… We often say that the War Brides followed their hearts to Canada, and so they … once it had become clear that Martin didn’t understand what they were saying. Catherine says, “that was our first beautiful kiss”. After four years of …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 6, 2020) At that time…[there were]…no buses running, it was like a strike, all the transportation. So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to be…more like a coup—in those days I didn’t know what a coup was. We only …
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… we climbed on the bed and jumped and jumped for joy. In my 10 and her 8-year-old minds, Canada was the land of infinite riches. We left … in Calabria. Bombile is 7 kilometers inland from Ardore Marina which lies on the Ionian coast facing Greece, in the back of Italy's big toe. …
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… CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH REGIMENT OF CANADA 23/09/1939 - Militia 20/06/1940 - … Brigade. No other details are yet available. This information was passed on the Regiment in the afternoon. Everyone was sorry at the … Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton …