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… Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army … to the hotel. This place is very nice and quite near Hyde Park. We slept in two tier bunks along with about two dozen other girls, …
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… Families April 1, 1953 - Waterman Times were hard in Holland then and although Pete worked hard to make a … was very luxurious with great dinners. We got three hot meals a day, which for Dutch people is unusual. For entertainment they showed a … Everina Pieternella Hoogerdyk …
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… Families 1953 – Groote Beer When my parents decided to come to Canada in 1953, I was faced with a huge dilemma. I had become a … killing him. He worked from 9 am to 2 or 3 am the early morning, next day. 6 days a week, and on his day off he slept all day to catch up on …
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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 …
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… army: August 27, 1945. He disembarked at Juno Beach two weeks after D-Day, advanced inland for six weeks, taken prisoner of war near Falaise … He was liberated April 13, 1945. After a rehab period, he returned via the Queen Mary to New York, then to Québec and then to Welland …
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… prisoner for eight years “another story”. Two of the older children died because they didn’t want to go back and died heart broken. The little one, Anthony, was only one year old. He … to Montreal in 1952, Uncle Anthony Mandato said to Uncle Giuseppe “come to live in Windsor, so it will be easier for me to visit you”. One …
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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 …
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… and especially the woman, couldn’t talk enough about the country. The way she talked, everybody had money. That is why they came for a trip. There was lots of money. I remember some … so they were going to sail across the ocean as soon as possible. That day finally came and having sold everything that they couldn’t take …
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… Emigrating To Canada September 1956 The photograph below was taken in front of our doorway at 473 Schimmelweg Straat, Rijswijk, Den Haag, Nederland on the morning of our … me what that reason was. Much later, after he passed away, I asked Mom why we moved to Canada. She told me it was either Canada or France, and …
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… Addolorata Di Falco and daughters arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax aboard the … 28, 1939. My husband and I lived in the same town and our families were long time friends. We worked on one of the local farms. When we … Giuseppe, Addolorata DiFalco e figli …