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… from Holland aboard the Ryndam on Dec. 6, 1954 just three weeks before my 18th birthday. The voyage was quite uneventful until three days out … and to Vermillion Bay and worked on the trans-Canada pipeline. After moving around Northern Ontario and Manitoba, I settled in Barrie Ontario in December 1958. Here I worked in a tannery until I met and married Weipke (Wendy) DeJong in July, 1962. Wendy and I …
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… We were met at Waterloo Station and taken to a Service Club in the west end of … Everyone was tired and weary, babies fussy. The next morning after a surprise breakfast of bacon and eggs (very scarce at that …
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… traveling to Halifax, Canada to join our Canadian husbands whom we had met during World War II. The voyage was quite calm, and after seven days we arrived at the port of Halifax. Most of us had to … train. As we disembarked, walking down the gang plank, I was carrying my five month old son, David. Immediately when I reached dry land, a …
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… Ann and Marinus Antonius Koggel entered Pier 21 in Halifax, September 26, 1952, Arriving aboard the Zuiderkruis from the Netherlands. I left … arriving back in Holland in 1950 that I would be emigrating soon after. Ann and I met in November 1951 and I asked her to marry me a few months later. We … Morris Koggel, Ann Meyerink Koggel …
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… Giovanni Maieron shares with us his story of how he came to live in Canada. He relates his tale with pride and an unexpected softness from … owned by four partners from Montreal,Quebec and the United States. After so many years, his memory of this time is so vivid and he recalls … with a Friulano family as a boarder and it was there that Giovanni met Angela. Angela Volpatti's family lived in Trieste. She was a young …
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… departure as our grandparents were very upset that we were leaving. My mother came from a tight family that found immigration an alien … Elisabeth (Mary 1944), Hendrikus (Henry 1947), and Jentina Roeliena (Ina 1950). The S.S. Volendam had been a troop carrier during World War … he brought back a couple of loaves of bread and an enormous jar of jam. It was the first time we had ever seen or tasted white bread. We …
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… insists on being on a first-name basis with royalty. She negotiates uncompromisingly when she’s offered a job. As a young person, alone in a … when I’ve failed to stand up when things were wrong and I felt ashamed that I didn’t go for it in the moment and fight- verbally fight. …
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… insists on being on a first-name basis with royalty. She negotiates uncompromisingly when she’s offered a job. As a young person, alone in a … when I’ve failed to stand up when things were wrong and I felt ashamed that I didn’t go for it in the moment and fight- verbally fight. …
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… was born on January 23, 1923 in the town of Bocholz, Holland. He met Maria Hubertina (Tiny) Schnakkers, daughter of Petronella Ramekers … Jozef were with us. We arrived in Halifax on the 28th of July. In the afternoon we boarded a train for Montreal, from there we headed for … Chateauguay. We had to be settled there before the 15th of August. After working there on the dairy farm of Robert Tolhurst, we moved to …
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… My father Harold Melville Rees, was a handsome, charming, funny … was a beautiful, young (only 16 years old), Glaswegian lass. They met in a dance hall in Glasgow, called the Locarno, and were married on July 25, 1945. After a brief honeymoon in Aberdeen, Dad returned to Canada on a …