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… be leaving the little town of Chingford Essex, the town where I had been born, to travel across an ocean to a place called Canada. … and permits in general for just about everything you could think of, even one from the Foreign Office. Then came the time to start the … difficult time for my Mother, her youngest daughter to be leaving to go so very far away. I have thought of her many times since, walking …
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… of immigrants to arrive at this school. But as soon as my Dad found out that I could stay out of school to work, I started at 13 with my 18 … from 7 - 1 am. Home for a few hours of sleep, and back into the fields again. Then Tobacco time : handling leafs and then time to learn to tie … I was hired with my sister in the Tobacco factory. And the money was good.” (Lea van Muren, 1952) “As might be expected, the transition to a …
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… born, Prairie bred, thanks to my grandparents, Charles and Emily Haigh, for immigrating to Canada. Charles Haigh departed from … never knew. I have always said, "the prairies separate men from boys". How tall he stands in my eyes! Emily Haigh, along with their children, … Charles and Emily Haigh …
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… Lars-Ove Carlson …
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… Children September 30, 1952 – Groote Beer (The following are my recollections, whether … (Understand that men were separated from the women and children.) In order to stop us from wetting the bed, Mom had removed all the drinking glasses from the bunks. My older brother …
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… region of Italy, for example, music has strong Celtic influences, while the southern half of the country has hints of Greek and Arabic … dating at least as far back as the 8 th century, has a polyphonic sound and is played using circular breathing. Sicily has a variety of … songs. The traditional instrument of Sicily is the flute. Opera is a well-known form of music to come out of Italy beginning as early as the …
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… British evacuee child, Keith Alan Freeman made the best of his wartime quarantine experience. … aunt but my memories are of having a wonderful time,” Alan wrote. “We had tricycles with fixed wheels (the pedals drove the wheels directly without a free-wheeling chain) so you braked by stopping pedalling. “We had roller-skates which were …
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… the test, and then after we went to the ceremony that for us is for something new because well we have to be in front of all the—the judge … here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the citizenship …
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… This is a first-hand account that goes with the Immigration Story (as well as other documents, audio recording, and photos) of the Leuteritz … and the rest to others and left for Bremen. Of all my friends who had studied with me in Munich, George Eberel came to the Munich Main Railway Station ( Hauptbahnhof ) to say goodbye. He even carried the luggage to our compartment. We took …
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… was myself, at a very young age working by her side and learning how to run our store, at the same time also attending school. She was … at us when we least expect it. Everything I am, and have today, I owe it to her. There is not enough room in my heart to possibly tell … in 1939 and she was learning how to become a seamstress. My brother Joe was born in 1943 and he was learning carpentry. My youngest sister …