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    … They raised nine children: Walter, Natalia, Minnie, Stella, Eugene, Anna, Olga, Nick and Andrew. John and Maria farmed until 1947. In … Yaroslaviv, Ukraine. Walter and Anna had a large family. Two sons and one daughter passed away at a very young age. They raised twelve …
  • Michele Nicola Carbone
    … to join the love his life, our Mother Vitina. How lucky his children, Anna, Angela, Mike and Rita and our families have been to have created … and Future Great-Grandchildren of Michele Nicola Carbone: Your Bisnonno was born on Feb 2, 1931 in Modugno, Italy where he … Michele Nicola Carbone …
  • Food Wars! Immigration and Food Confiscation at Pier 21
    … Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction “If one thing caused scenes at Pier 21, it was sausages.” This statement … exhibition sheds light on an interesting yet underexplored aspect of Canadian immigration history: food confiscation. Food can be a … ate and brought with them, we can “humanize” the past and give a voice to the experience of newcomers on their initial arrival to a new …
  • Carmine Sablone
    Carmine Sablone's passport Anna Maria Marini's passport …
  • The Eusebius Luiken Family
    … Catharina, age 43. The children were: Nicolaas J. 19, Hendrikus 17, Anna Marie 16, Eisebius A. 14, Jacobus 12, Euphemia 11, Batholemeus 10, Nicolaas B. 8, Juliana 7, Anna E. 5. Our destination was the Cranebill Ranch owned by Roy Inman … severe storm. I only remember that my brother Batholemeus was the only one who was sick. The men and women slept in different quarters. Once …
  • Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni
    … Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni with their daughter Anna Teresa. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 … spring of 1954, my older sister was born. The young couple named her Anna Teresa, in honour of my father’s own and only sister who had died …
  • The Willem N. Stokdijk Family
    … Anna and Willem Stokdijk first set foot on Canadian soil at Pier 21, … runs the business. This brick was bought as a gift on the occasion of Anna's 80th Birthday on October 31, 1999. She wanted to honour her …
  • Wojciech Steve Rebisz
    … Poland Son of Jan & Zofia Rebisz (nee Kowal) Grandson of Antoni & Anna Rebisz Grandson of Wojciech & Katarzyna Kowal (nee Dawid) Arrived … born 1993. Children - Andrew Mark Rebisz born 1964. Andrew married Anna Lynn Milton 1990. Two step children- Troy Reginald Thibodeau born …
  • Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma
    … July 27, 1957. See George S and Geraldine G Zwaagstra > See Sjouke and Anna Zwaagstra > Freerk & Ebeltje Wedding Day 1932 Jansma Family 1955 …
  • Sapper Thomas Maksymchuk
    … He immigrated to Canada in June, 1930 with his parents, Andrew and Anna Maksymchuk , who had changed the date of his birth on his … for WWII service, leaving behind his pregnant wife, Amelia, and one-year-old daughter, Lucy, on their small farm in Grindrod, BC. As a … and other structures to keep men and equpment moving across Europe. One day Thomas was ordered to appear before his Commanding Officer who …

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