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  • Experiences of Place: Immigration Experiences in Sault Ste. Marie
    … History, and I completed an experiential education placement with the Canadian Museum of Immigration in 2022. The placement was with CMI’s … Coding helped me find connections among the 13 interviews. One way to do this was to see how often individual codes applied to the 13 … (57), community (53), reasons for moving (28), settlement programs (26), religion (20), and general insights (5). I would like to highlight …
  • Stanley Sape Vander Meulen
    … Stanley Vander Meulen was born Sape Vander Muelen on 26 January 1933 in Driesum, a rural village in Friesland, a province of … Friesland to the port at Hoek van Holland and from there by ferry to Dover in England. He stayed briefly in London and then on to Liverpool where he boarded the SS Franconia on 31 …
  • Legacy Gift
    … Your Story. Canada's Story. Telling our stories preserves our history. A gift in your … immigration stories, forever. Here are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering … We invite you to talk to us about what you hope your gift will accomplish. Step 4 With the help of your loved ones and advisors, create …
  • Nicholas Bosiuk
    … Our great-grandfather Nicholas (Mikolaj) Bosiuk was born on September 26, 1903 in Zelena, Skalot, Poland (now Ukraine). Sponsored by Wasyl … hospital and a personal care home in Dauphin. He passed away on March 26, 1983 at the age of 79 years. His wife Katherine passed away on … at Pier 21 in the summer of 1929. Their names appear in column 50, row 26 (Anton, Zofia, Ted and Bill Warelis) and (Wincenty and Ewa Warelis) …
  • Kris Jensen
    … to Canada 1951: left Plymouth May 19, 1951, arrived at Pier 21 on May 26, on the S.S. Europe . By train to Vancouver, BC, was taken to … Started working June 3, 1951, and retired from the saw mill November 26, 1985. First two years pulling lumber on the big green chain, next … join them as inspector, still being at the same mill, worked the next 26 years as inspector. I married in 1961 and have four kids, two boys …
  • LAC William Joseph Giblin
    … in the late 1920s. In 1941, he married Rita Helen Egli, and they had a daughter, Carolyn Margaret Giblin. In June 1942, 25-year-old William … the place where he boarded a ship to serve his country. Written by Linda Chiarvesio, Toronto, Ontario, July 2024. William's Royal Canadian …
  • Life for Family Left Behind - Cathy Wirick
    … New Haven, Connecticut, because I felt still I was in the States, but coming to Canada, he wouldn't, my ex-husband wouldn't have been allowed to leave … he was wanted by the FBI, so that was really hard. My parents did come around, my dad put up a display in his jewellry store in the …
  • Michele e Concetta Fusillo
    … September 23, 1951 - Concetta; June 12, 1954 - Michele Age on Arrival: 26 - Concetta; 23 - Michele Born in the south eastern community of … family in Niagara Falls, Canada on September 23, 1951, at the age of 26. A few years later, she married Michele Fusillo who joined her in … We want to acknowledge and thank them for taking the risks they did to come to a new country, not knowing the language, not having work and …
  • Jozwiak, Yarosh,
    … Road in Welland Ontario. John Yarosh, born Joannes Jarosz on January 26, 1905 in the village of Dubowce, Tarnopol, Austria, to Terentius … Helen Muzar died in Welland, Ontario of heart failure on February 26, 1984 at the age of 73, and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery on …
  • Kucha Family
    … Sharon Bonnallie Hungarian Immigrants Minnedosa (Steven) July 23, 1926 Berlin III (Margaret) February 11, 1934 Age: 5 years 8 mos for … Steven F 8 years for Margaret S (left Hungary on her birthday) January 26, 1934 Steven F. Kucha, Jr. (Istvan Kucsa, Jr.) left from his … on the ship called the Minnedosa and arrived in Halifax July 23, 1926. He was just over five years, 8 mos. old when he arrived in Canada. …

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