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… shows why. The Winter 2026 edition has stories about: A special visit by two sisters who arrived at Pier 21 65 years ago How a staff …
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… a labourer on the St. Lawrence Seaway building project. Bought a ‘49 Ford and headed west to BC to work on the railroad from Squamish to Prince George. He … still owns and drives his Ford. Came to the Outaouais region of QC to visit Dutch friends, worked as a bulldozer operator at a paper mill in …
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… February 1946 and we did not meet again for 21 years. She came east to visit me in North Sydney, Cape Breton by air, staying for a month or … home there in Haywards Heath. In 1969, we met again in Britain, then I visited British Columbia when Jean lived in Mission, a couple of times …
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… made it much easier for income. I still travel down Eastern Canada to visit my son and daughter-in-law, four grandchildren (two married) and five great grandchildren. Also I have my other son, daughter-in-law and three granddaughters here. I …
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… Alex Dmitruk (parents Justin & Maria), born March 12, 1923 in Mohilno, Western Ukraine, Displaced Person Helene Marie Kreutzer, born August 29, 1925 in Spiegelau, West Germany Alex fled Russian occupation to Germany as a young man … sons and a daughter. Helene returned to Germany on a few occasions to visit her family and relatives but Alex never did, fearing his freedom …
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… Recently I have returned from a trip to the East Coast and visited the tall ships in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Pier 21. What a … in Dartmouth and commuted to Halifax daily. What a marvelous job they have done to Pier 21 and I know the tears came down my cheeks as I …
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… Maria, Petra, Elizabeth and Joseph. They lived in Afton, NS for a bit, moved to Lakevale, NS and finally settled in May 1957 in Marydale, NS where they purchased a farm. They had decided to come to Canada with the hope of owning their own farm. Many relatives came from Holland to visit us at the Maas farm. One of the favorite places to take visitors …
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… Atlantic on the Aquitania. Arriving at Pier 21 (she was the first one off the ship) and driving to northern Nova Scotia to a small community … Olive familiarized herself to a new way of life: without shops to visit daily and very few neighbours close by. Ralston and Olive settled on the family farm and raised a family: …
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… lives in Milton with his family. Filippo has been fortunate enough to have been able to return to Italy a few times over the years to visit his family he left 50 years ago. …
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… War Cemetery at Beny-Sur-Mer in Normandy, France. I went there to visit the grave of Gunner Roy F. Ludwig of the Canadian 12th Field … was six. My father joined the army in 1940. My sister was two, I was four and my brother was seven. My father sailed from Halifax on the … I never saw my father again. He wrote to us from England. I still have all his letters, but he had to be very careful what he wrote in …