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… their voyage across the Atlantic and arriving at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada on November 11, 1954. Upon arrival he recalls being …
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… were recognized: independent immigrants selected on the basis of the points system; a family class which included the immediate family …
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… El Consulado Honorario de México en Nueva Escocia y Nuevo Brunswick The Honorary Consulate of Mexico in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick En reconocimiento al trabajo hecho por … que han inmigrado a Canadá, trayendo su rica cultura y espíritu emprendedor para contribuir en la construcción de un nuevo país. In …
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… 30 us on the job. Everything was very primitive and only brooks and ponds for drinking water which was not suitable. There was a coke …
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William Jospeh Giblin was born in 1917 in Newark, New Jersey and moved to Montreal as a child with his family in the late 1920s. In 1941, he married Rita Helen Egli, and they had a daughter, Carolyn Margaret Giblin. In June 1942, 25-year-old William joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a …
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… New Brunswick in 1922. He was the son of Thadée and Eva Gallant (née Theriault). He grew up in a large family alongside his six …
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… Stories in Dutch 15 April 1953, na twee uuur slapen werden wij weer op geropen om de groten overtocht te aan vaarden. Just en … geleide te doen. Daar aan gekomen was’t einde van ons samen zijn, ja wie weet voor hoe land, zullen we ons ooit weerzien, maar met goeden …
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… HALIFAX HARBOUR, JUNE 1940 Minesweepers, accompanied by destroyers bristling with guns, were getting … know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day." A song shared by both Gracie and Vera Lynn. The silence on the …
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… Stories in Dutch On 15 April 1953, after two hours of sleep, we were called up to begin the voyage. Right on schedule, the Roetje … soil of our beloved town of Neer vanished beneath our feet. We were in high spirits on the bus, which took the edge off the seriousness of …
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… I did. I liked Marx and I liked Hegel. But I wasn't a member of the Communist Party. And most of the people, I know—I remember, there were also, were not members of the Communist Party. We were called, "Communists, traitors. How could you do this to your country? You know, …