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… 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 like see you in … was really not possible. At 4:00pm the "ms Groote Beer" cast off and we were underway. First stop was Le Havre where we arrived the … and musicians among the passengers. The latter was usually the best - one of the comics was a returning missionary from Africa on his …
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… liner. Women/girls were in separate sleeping quarters from the men/boys. We were in soft-bottomed slings that functioned like bunk beds … Hamilton and dad decided that Albert and he would go into Halifax and buy the family some food for the journey. He wore his wooden shoes … caused quite a sensation by pedestrians and drivers that were going by. Upon his return he brought back a couple of loaves of bread and an …
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… flag on the door and a guy there saying, “Are you Molloy?” “Yes.” “Come on with me.” And he said, “I’ll take you to the hotel.” And I … me there.” So, I arrived there. And he’d, in the meantime, negotiated for the best office space in the town. There’s no furniture to be had so he’d, …
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… obtain proof that restricting Chinese immigration to Canada was in the best interest of the country. Approximately 15,000 Chinese labourers …
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… Canada’s border by car are asked by customs officers whether they have anything to declare. Whether entering the country at the border, … “Which hotel in Montreal, the Mount Royal or the Windsor, affords the best view of Niagara Falls?” “How can I address and seal a parcel so as to ensure that the Canadian …
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… Museum changed. I love change, by the way – especially this kind. I have been working at the museum for over five years now, and I have had … interactives - they invite real thought.” Comment Card 246 “I enjoy how interactive the experience has been.” Comment Card 159 In … be a “look and read” type of museum. In the Pier 21 exhibition and Canadian Immigration Hall, there are places for people to touch, sit, …
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… town in western Manitoba, in the Canadian prairies. A service centre for grain and livestock farms, Neepawa has a population of just under … Canada Immigrants from the Philippines have been by far the largest newcomer group. Why is this? Filipinos began arriving as temporary foreign … not only just by work or by earn money, no. As long as you do your best and treat them as, not only as individual with disability. You …
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… British Columbia. His middle name, prophetic as it turned out to be, was his mother’s family name. Susan Ann Dorothy and Allan Douglas … First World War. His older sister, Irene, and his parents seemed to have doted on bright young Doug, who before he was 12 years old had … hero. This led him (without his parents’ knowledge) to write off to the fledgling Canadian Navy to enquire about becoming a sailor. …
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… Years in the Making" I always wondered what would be the one word to best describe my mother. It was a challenge to put it mildly, but the … not bucking for a "daughter of the year" prize.) All my life, I've been a history buff whether it was Russian, American or Sports. I … as Katarzyna Iwaniszyn (Catherine Ewanishan) in Nowosiolki, Poland not far from the Ukrainian border. Katarzyna was the third child of Szymon …