• Sapper Melvin E. Clark
    … star Italy Star France Germany Star Defense of Britain Medal CVSM (Can Volunteer Service Medal) Victory Medal … Germany into thinking more troops were stationed there than really were. Scotland to Sicily June 1943 The need for battle experience and the … on Sicily. This was the prelude to the invasion of mainland Europe. The invasion was carried out by the Seventh U.S. Army under …
  • Al and Agnes Kolarik
    … Immigrant Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: T.S.S. Nea Hellas Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Date of Arrival: April 23, 1949 Age on Arrival: Alois - 30 years old, Anezka - 24 years old The following is the story … historical documents and research. Many details were taken from Alois’s memoirs that he wrote at the age of 92. He started writing his …
  • Corey Verwolf
    … paintings, bicycles, horses, food and anything of value. For a radio, you could be shot. The last year and a half of the war was really … no food. People in the cities were desperate. We were expecting the allies to free us in late 1944, but the heavy fighting the Canadian … soldiers encountered in Holland took them longer. Freedom did not come to our town until May 10, 1945. WHAT A DAY! The Canadian soldiers …
  • John Hughes
    … was presented and discussed by War Cabinet on June 17, 1940, the same day as the French Army surrendered. There were doubts the plan would proceed, but the scheme was approved by cabinet the same day. Mr. Atlee presented the Children's Overseas Reception Board plan …
  • Resettling Child Refugees: Canada and Armenian Orphans, 1923-1927
    … and provide testimony to a federal immigration official that he or she is a minor. Otherwise, within Canadian immigration policy, they are treated as adult …
  • “Young Man, You Take Yourself Far Too Seriously”: The Memoirs of Immigration Officer Fenton Crosman
    … by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Canadian immigration history can be researched using a staggering variety of sources . There are … make the best report possible. In contrast, there is Mr. M. He is a young man; his office is 100% ship-shape: and he is keen as a new blade … “Young Man, You Take Yourself Far Too Seriously”: The Memoirs of …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • Stanley Sape Vander Meulen
    … Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of … in drafting and design at a nearby technical school. World War II (1939-1945) spared northern Holland many of the extreme hardships … long-term movements of people from place to place. After World War II, Dutch emigrants mainly chose South Africa, New Zealand, the United …
  • Immigrant Voices: Diverse Reactions to the Transatlantic Voyage from Europe to Canada’s Shores
    … refugees, war brides, and evacuee children came through its halls before setting out across the country to begin their new lives in Canada. After their arrival in … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier …
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Lutton
    … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by … was able to look back down the RAPIDO RIVER valley from their vantage points on the high ground. It was like seeing a newsreel in Technicolor … Major Frank Southby, O.C.”D” Company was seriously wounded, since died of wounds. An 8 NBH tank picked him up through an escape hatch on …