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Time 0:02:23 Transcript My Oma was always very close with her sister. They had three brothers and their mother died when they were young, so they stuck together and supported one another as they were growing up. When she got married, my Oma made the decision to move with her new husband to Canada. …
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Time 0:02:56 Transcript I am now living a dream life to most. A beautiful condominium in Florida with a water view, nothing to do except laze in the sun and read – yet I find myself confused, not sure whether to make Florida my permanent home. Is it time to move again? – and again for a man? I was …
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… age of eighteen he decided to seek new adventures like many other boys and signed up for active duty in the Canadian Army much to the … be going to the front line. James, on some of his furloughs would visit relatives and friends in Scotland and England. During one of these furloughs James would meet his "bride to be" (July 1940) and subsequently married Mary Price on February 9, …
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… So would you say that Canada feels like home to you now? YG: Uh home for me, yes, definitely. Uh—it is going to sound very bad, but I’m … uh—now this is my place and, and I’m going to Colombia basically to visit my family, my—my close family, my parents and my siblings, and … Biography: Yolanda Garcia was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia. She completed an undergraduate degree in systems engineering from …
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… the "Queen" until the following day. Women and children were taken off first, and rightly so. This gave Grace and me time to enjoy the … Not knowing I was on my way, my husband Neil had driven his parents to visit his sister in Waterton Park, Alberta. With difficulty, the Red … to meet me in Winnipeg. I lived in Fort Frances with my husband (a fur buyer) until after his death and I retired from the paper mill. In …
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… As a Heritage Interpreter here at the Museum I have the opportunity to interact with the public on a daily basis. … in helping me do my job, and to ensure you get the most out of your visit. I thought I would take a moment and share the reasons I prize … about here at the Museum. The history of Canadian immigration is a vast and immensely complicated thing. It’s a multifaceted story …
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… I am a Pier 21 Alumni and I am pleased to say also a current member. I have been reluctant to tell my Pier 21 story because I always thought … it was so much less interesting then the ones I heard about during my visit to the Pier21 Museum. I changed my mind after reading through the … parts of Canada. My story is a little different. Not only did I come a different way, (by train) and from a different direction (from …
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… while waiting to be processed by the port authorities, I went to buy some bread and ham in order to make myself a sandwich, the bread … for my liking, so I made myself a few sandwiches, knowing, I would have a two day journey to Toronto. I ate the sandwich and more as I was … I was met by my relatives at Union Station. Days later, I went to visit the nearest employment office to register my arrival. In January …
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… the young men of his era he served in World War I and was hospitalized for nine months in Prague after sustaining severe injuries to his back … a train to Ethelbert, Manitoba. They settled in the small rural community of Ukraina. When they arrived they had no home to live in. … In October, Anton and Zofia, with Julian driving, went to Ontario to visit their son Boleslaw (Bill) and his family, Anton's brother Bolek …
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… Cowboys and Indians lived there. WOW! It sounded like a great place to visit. Subsequently one day in August I found myself leaving home with … there were many rows of cots, spaced about 4 feet apart, and only very high windows along one wall. As dusk fell everyone was ordered into … in the distance, until the CORB escorts arrived and ordered us back to bed. The next afternoon we boarded the buses again and headed for the …