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… and excitement when the ship docked at Pier 21 on February 21st after ten long and cold days over the Atlantic, when they finally … A year later, Concetta's life would again change dramatically when she met the man who would become her dance partner for life, Giovanni … never forgot her humble beginnings. She maintained her ties with her hometown friends by supporting the San Vincenzo Valleradice Club with …
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… My Pier 21 Story Elizabeth Heinz, Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from … other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled Bessarabia after the Russian revolution in 1905. She arrived in Canada at Pier 21 …
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… My Pier 21 Story Elizabeth Heinz, Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from … other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled Bessarabia after the Russian revolution in 1905. She arrived in Canada at Pier 21 …
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… My Pier 21 Story Elizabeth Heinz, Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from … other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled Bessarabia after the Russian revolution in 1905. She arrived in Canada at Pier 21 …
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… it, I was so relieved, to get safely here. And I—I’ll never forget coming into Halifax and then two soldiers came on and they took the …
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… what kind of food is that. The food was awful. When I came to Welcome house. I thought to myself WOW THIS HOUSE IS BIG, but then someone told us it was like an apartment. The welcome house had 3 floors. Then after staying at welcome house for a few weeks or months, they told us that we were going …
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… Postwar Immigration Policy and Preferential Immigrants Shortly after the Second World War, Canadian officials had their preferences in … found themselves in Austrian and German Displaced Persons (DPs) camps after fleeing the Soviet occupation of their homelands in 1940, the … in Western Europe or to neutral countries including Sweden. [3] By mid-1946, Canada was in the midst of an economic boom . Public opinion …
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… bench outside, all wanting to go back to Wales. They spent the morning/afternoon at Holloway's and the night at the Peers Hotel for which … They were called squatters on government land as the previous people may have been or may have placed a claim to the land with the idea of …
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… aboard the ship called the Saturnia, through Halifax Pier 21. Our Mom, my brother and myself followed ten months later leaving from Genoa … We put on every piece of clothing we had in our suitcases. Finally, after three days we arrived in Long Lac, a rail town not far from … high as the houses. We were wondering what next. Our Dad was there to meet us so all was okay. We had not seen him for such a long time. We …
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… From Nijmegan he applied for leave to marry his sweetheart he had met in London, England. The marriage to Olive Helen Briggs took place … Nijmegan and Arnhem. The war was over, and Ralston returned to Canada after three years of service overseas. He returned home on the Queen … Ripley (Briggs), arrived on the Aquitania with other War Brides on May 1, 1946. The couple settled on a farm in River Philip and raised …