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  • L.A.W. M. Catherine Cannon
    … taught us Grade 12 when he was hired to teach only up to Grade 11, many of us in the Marquis district would not have graduated from high … founding of a religious community, the Sisters of Mission Service, a pioneer effort to update religious life. When my role as co-founder … in the Cannon family, for in 1912, GEORGE and CHARLIE were paid a visit by their sister Lizzie. She had planned only to stay a short …
  • Arie Dirk Bestebreurtje
    … York, becoming a Presbyterian minister in 1953. After a brief apprenticeship with a church in the New York area, he took over a new church … as the head pastor there until his retirement 15 years later in 1981. One year after retirement, he drowned while ice skating. His wife …
  • Leonard Palmer
    … 19, 1913 in England. He was adopted by Maud Florence and David Livingstone Palmer and was named after Leonard Hodgkinson, Senior 4 th Engineer … On May 2, 1929, they were put on a train heading north and, one by one, they got off at their designated station. Leonard’s station was … Mountain in Cape Breton. On August 16, 1939 he married Hilda Loretta Ashe and a year later on August 12, 1940 a daughter was born. She was …
  • Luigi e Grazia Letizia Napolitano
    … 1940s and 1950s. Luigi had returned from three terrible years as a Prisoner of War for three years from 1942 to 1945. He had suffered forced … they would travel to the neighbouring town called Sannicola. While on one of his walks, he saw a young lady sitting outside her home doing … city was foreign and the language difficult to learn and it was not easy to land that first job. With little money and delay in finding …
  • Sergeant Elmo Hugh Munroe
    … Atlantic Crossing - HMS Chitral October 24, 1941 - November 2, 1941   The Personal Account … nine. Elmo Hugh Munroe was born in the northeastern state of Maine, USA on April 10, 1921, just a day after his parents crossed the … Young Elmo worked in the woods, toiled on the "mud skunk", and fished for a living. Dad had lots of stories to relate about those days …
  • Arie and Cornelia Versluys
    … week to ten days. Mom and dad discussed this and decided it could be done. Flying was out of the question as dad would not go up in an … tired of the wait. On Friday 5 April an urgent message arrived at the house that there was an opening on the Ryndam, a luxury liner that had … stayed with family the last few nights as we had nothing left in the house. There was a difficult moment at our leaving as we assumed we …
  • Jean Shephard Laffin
    … into their care. So the Women’s Own members would go around to the big houses and mansions to ask permission to collect red white and blue … put onto each Canadian grave for the memorial service. I had often gone along with my Mother and helped her on these occasions. There had … I didn’t take much notice him, in fact, I was rather shy (and not an easy mixer, well, perhaps he was too, I didn’t know) But perhaps Mrs. …
  • Peter Hessel
    … English Translation from Peter Hessel's Diary Aboard the M.S. Anna Salén in the northern North Sea, off the Scottish coast. Tuesday, … I didn't want to spend my last few days in Germany completely without money. On Saturday night we were shown a movie called "Der …
  • H.F. Leuteritz
    … He even carried the luggage to our compartment. We took the (ship) Anna Salén from Bremerhaven with one stop in Le Havre (France). Early in November after a week-long trip … U.S. Department of Justice (in Munich) (she was an editor, correcting any mistakes in our translations which was seldom necessary) had …
  • Tajti Family
    … August 21, 1925, and went to Welland, ON. He had left behind his wife, Anna Katona and sons Pal and Zoltan. Anna and the boys sailed from … said Istvan lived at 446 South Main St., in Welland. A daughter, Anne, was born the next year in Canada. The Tajti family was Roman …

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