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  • Antonio G. Abate
    … of Origin : Italy Date of Arrival: October 19, 1966 Ship Name: Queen Anna Maria …
  • Elisabeth Martha Zufall Schwabe
    … necessary before they could leave Europe. On November 16, 1951, the M/S Anna Salen immigrated them from Germany to Pier 21. From Halifax, …
  • Guenther Ivens
    … We left Kiel by train to Bremerhaven Camp Lesum before boarding the Anna Salèn enroute to Canada. On July 23, 1951 we left Bremerhaven and …
  • Josef and Elfrieda
    … they would potentially have a better opportunity to own their own house and eventually raise a family. Thus, under a Canadian Government … and arrived at Pier 21, Halifax, Canada via the sailing ship, the Anna Salen on June 25th, 1953. They made their way to the Toronto, … Ontario area and eventually purchased their much sought after first house in Toronto itself and raised a family of two children, Renate & …
  • The Tretiak Gruzin Family
    … Belgium, to Hamburg, Germany, where they sailed to Canada on the Anna Salen. They took residence in Montreal, Quebec, where immigrants … age of 6 months. Halina is a Holodomor survivor. Halina (Tretiak) had one sister and three brothers. The youngest brother (Nikolai, born in …
  • Mary and Jozeph Van Schaick
    … we had 8 children: Sophia, Mary, Jozeph, Cornelius, Patricia, Vincent, Anna Marie (d. 1966) and Pieter. In 1972, we moved to Big Bras d'Or, …
  • The Victor Kvasheninikoff Family
    … They eventually made their way across the ocean to Canada on the M/S Anna Salen, spending two weeks on very rough seas. Finally, they …
  • Michele and Concetta DeBuono Family
    … Age on Arrival: 3 years old My Family will be celebrating 50 years in Canada on March 2nd, 2008, immigrating from our southern roots of Rende … I was only 3 and half years of age at that time and have little if any recollection of the trip. In the summer of 1999, I did have the … seven children on this voyage to Canada. Filomena , Pasquale, Franco, Anna, Julianna, Mario (me), and Silvanna. My Mother Concetta was …
  • Sapper Tony Anton E. Vermeulen
    … to try something to new, and heard that things were much better in Canada. He immigrated to Canada in March of 1927. My parents were unable to travel together, as … until the baby was three months old. Four months later, my mother Anna, myself, 4 years old, and my baby sister Marie, immigrated to …
  • Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe’s Arctic Char Ceviche
    Inspired by trying ceviche for the first time in Costa Rica, award-winning Inuk chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe returned home with the idea of making a variation of the popular dish with Arctic char and local ingredients. Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe’s Arctic Char Ceviche. Courtesy of Chef Trudy Metcalfe Coe. …

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