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… see our family again. The cost of travel across the Atlantic for a visit was considered totally out of reach back in those days. We …
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… Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get … industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done their … from the mines. In 1948 my older brother by three years, wanted to become a pilot when he was to be drafted and so our emigration plans were …
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… by the time you get anywhere near they say ‘Oh no, it’s closed now. Come tomorrow.’ So people were really, really completely … quick to assist in resettling a further 2,000 Ugandan Asians who had become stateless during the 90-day eviction period, many of whom thought …
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… An excerpt on immigration to Canada in 1920, taken from John Leyten’s memoirs “A present of my past … some people, relatives to my Dad, and they came over from Canada for a visit. They talked all about Canada, how good it was there and that … something I didn’t hold my hand open anymore. I just gave them one coin at a time. Anyway, we finally went on board for the Wild West, …
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… promote emigration. Countries preferred by many emigrants were Canada, the U.S.A., New Zealand and South Africa. I had several reasons … adventure. A friend of mine was in Canada at that time, on a half year visitors visa, to visit a brother and his wife, who had emigrated a few … After the war we saw little of each other. Meeting again we had a chance to get reacquainted. Because of him, I had the opportunity to …
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… Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get … industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done their … from the mines. In 1948 my older brother by three years, wanted to become a pilot when he was to be drafted and so our emigration plans were …
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… Olive. In 1944, she married Bob Cunneyworth, an Airman with the Royal Canadian Air Force. In doing so, she set the wheels in motion for what would be a challenging sea voyage to Canada in March of 1945 when the North Atlantic was at its worst. Thus, she became one of Canada's 50,000 War Brides to make the long journey to join with her …
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… out, it was quite a culture shock for her and she described he first visit at her in-law's place. She was shocked that she had to go through …
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… that war was over with Japan. You guessed it - we had arrived on V-J Day. After we docked, it was women with children first, and those … my surprise and delight, I realized it was my husband Steve!! He had come to take me off the ship. He then introduced me to his Uncle Bert, … I enjoyed going out with Steve, and quite often his parents would come along and we would go visiting his kinfolk, and taking in the …
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… his wife holds a bouquet of flowers. He is nervous and excited. He is coming home in a sense and he cannot stop thinking about what brought … before and all that has happened since. A woman stands in the foyer of Pier 21 National Historic Site. She is wearing a navy blue, … that he would be wearing a blue shirt. How is it that on this, an uncommonly busy day, every man who enters is wearing some variety of blue …