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… refugees, war brides, and evacuee children came through its halls before setting out across the country to begin their new lives in … This collection includes first-hand accounts of what it was like to come to Canada including: travelling by ship, first impressions of Pier … Army and the Sisters of Service. In the coming months, I hope to shed more light on the experiences of newcomers to Canada as they arrived at …
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… Canadian ground. And I tend to agree with the latter, Pier 21 is much more than a building. The story I’d like to share happened a long time … alone on one of the benches in the Rudolph Peter Bratty Exhibition Hall. She started talking with him and before long he was confiding in … More than a Building …
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… relatable challenge is adapting to new and unfamiliar foods. In Canada, one is inevitably exposed to different food from around the … it’s hard to buy food within your budget because many items are more expensive than what you are used to. And it takes a long time to … Pier 21 is a museum of stories of people who came – and continue to come - to make Canada their new home. To give a little of bit a taste …
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… How can I share my story? You can share your story in two ways. You can complete the online story form located here . You can also email …
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… siblings. The conditions motivated me to set sail on the Saturnia for Canada, in search of “pane e lavoro” (bread and work). I arrived in Canada in 1952 and settled in Toronto, where I worked three jobs in … to work at the Workplace Safety & Insurance Appeals Tribunal because all along my passion was for worker’s rights. On the side, I was also …
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… brief quarantine left him jobless. His daughter, Gysje Koenderink, recalled an exciting crossing in which she and her five brothers and … Wally. “We were the last passengers to leave the ship as Wally had come down with the German measles and we were put into quarantine,” … were no handles on the inside and the windows were barred. At night we washed our underwear in the bathroom sink for the next day because we …
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… the first class dining room. The memories of my first ocean voyage are all first class, it was exciting and a very good beginning for new … the ship docked nine days later at Pier 21, and life seemed much more serious. It did not take too long to have my passport processed in … in the middle of the summer, for I loved swimming and seldom had the chance to swim in salt water. During my spare time I walked to horse …
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… in 1957. She was travelling with her parents and coming to Canada to visit her older sisters and brother who were already here. They met for … each other after the voyage, a while later they reunited in Toronto by chance in an English-language class and were married on Sept. 3rd, 1960 … they did was for the better of their children. The children were all married off and they were blessed with 8 grandchildren. Shortly …
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… I was looking for. I remembered that after the war was over, the Canadians were looking good to me. Then, two boys in my neighbourhood … they went away. The place that they went to was Bradford, Ontario, called the ‘Holland Marsh’. They had people there that sponsored them. …
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… in my nickel's worth as to ‘how, why, and what for' I wanted to come to Canada. I worked for my father as a Market Gardener for eleven … they went away. The place that they went to was Bradford, Ontario, called the ‘Holland Marsh'. They had people there that sponsored them. …