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  • Duro and Erika Gravonic and Family
    … aged eight, my brother Duro, jr., aged four, Erika, our mother, aged 26, and me aged six. Once on board the truck, Mom said, "Let's all hold hands and we did." Then Mom's eyes lit up and her …
  • Morris Koggel, Ann Meyerink Koggel
    … Ann and Marinus Antonius Koggel entered Pier 21 in Halifax, September 26, 1952, Arriving aboard the Zuiderkruis from the Netherlands. I left … to marry me a few months later. We got married in August of 1952 and set sail for Canada a month later, on September 18th. Ann's father was opposed to the marriage and the move and said when we left Holland that he was sending his daughter to her grave …
  • Karpowich Frank Pauline
    … In the spring of 1913, 26-year-old Frank Karpowich bid farewell to his family in Mlyniska, Poland, hopped a train to … free land beckoned homesteaders. But homesteading in the jungles of South America was no agrarian dream. Disillusioned, they returned to …
  • The Sydney C. Low Family
    … to Pier 21 last week and of the Sobey Wall of Honour, he immediately said we must have the family name put up because we would never have … us to immigrate. Here was finally a way to say thank you to Canada. He said immigrating to Canada was the best thing he ever did in his life. By Campbell (daughter), Shirley …
  • A Good Life by Metta
    Time 0:03:42 Transcript There was nothing to do in Arnes so when I finished grade 11, I went to Winnipeg and I stayed with my best friend Mary Daniels family. Ruth, Mary’s mother, was a war bride and she took me round all over to find a job but nobody had any openings. When we were just about home …
  • Antonio Joaquim de Sousa
    … Antonio Joaquim de Sousa …
  • Maria Di Pietro-Cortellucci
    … Maria Di Pietro-Cortellucci …
  • Giuseppe and Cesidia De Marinis
    … Giuseppe and Cesidia De Marinis …
  • Tonino and Amalia Di Felice
    … Tonino and Amalia Di Felice …
  • Rachela e Giovanni De Marco
    … Rachela e Giovanni De Marco …

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