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… Friuli Venezia-Giulia. I landed at Pier 21. The documentation was in order. I boarded the train on route to Toronto. Little did I know this … to the Canadian government. My mother bought me a suit and pajamas. I had to make sure that I had $120 in a traveller’s cheque, and $30 in cash. On July 8th, I boarded the boat “Roma” in Genoa. My sister …
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… I was in Times Square, New York. I saw the declaration of war spelt out on the moving letters on the top of the clock. I should have been … this was the trip of a lifetime, my first bit of independence and the chance to study art in summer school in this huge cosmopolitan city. I … felt the British could get on without me for another three weeks, and so I stayed. What I do remember with warmth was the fact that everybody …
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… Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been …
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… family friend and her son who was the driver piled in to their car to go to Naples. We were immigrating to Canada. Our journey was starting … happen to us? Where would we end up? What was in store for our family? How was I going to make new friends and how quickly I could learn the …
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… September 21, 1952, arriving in Halifax 9 days later on September 30. This was Ineke’s 6th birthday. The last morning everyone got up early to see land approaching. We were to arrive at 6 A.M., It … served lunch on the ship. Our first impressions were the contrast in how freight was handled in the harbour. In Rotterdam large cranes and …
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… BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether it … and turn of the century lured settlers by the thousands from Russia as well as many other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled … prairie town. His shop was a fascinating place. The sight of the white hot metal, sounds of hissing steam, ringing of the hammer striking the …
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… BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether it … and turn of the century lured settlers by the thousands from Russia as well as many other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled … prairie town. His shop was a fascinating place. The sight of the white hot metal, sounds of hissing steam, ringing of the hammer striking the …
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… Children March 1953 - Groote Beer At the age of nine I emigrated with my family (parents and 2 older … in March of 1953. The decision to immigrate was made by my parents in order to provide the opportunity for a better future for their … it was quite rough and the upper bunk was no longer the attraction it had when we boarded. It became a white-knuckle experience when the boat …
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… BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether it … and turn of the century lured settlers by the thousands from Russia as well as many other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled … prairie town. His shop was a fascinating place. The sight of the white hot metal, sounds of hissing steam, ringing of the hammer striking the …
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… BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether it … and turn of the century lured settlers by the thousands from Russia as well as many other countries. My great-grandmother, Justina Flaig, fled … prairie town. His shop was a fascinating place. The sight of the white hot metal, sounds of hissing steam, ringing of the hammer striking the …