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… MY IMMIGRATION STORY April 27, 1959 was the day I arrived in Halifax, Canada along with my mother Maria and sister … Vulcania, docked at Pier 21. The anxiety and excitement of our arrival were palpable among all the passengers, but especially me – excitement … economic constraints. We left Venice on a clear, sunny and warm spring day. My godmother, one of my mother’s best friends, accompanied us to …
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… two world wars and the turmoil, destruction, and hunger that followed. But my father had an excellent job and a promising career, and by … Germany was so that his children would be free from war, with no chance of Hans ever being drafted into the military. He was right, too. …
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… Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey My sister, Catherine MacKinnon Read , and I left Gourock, Scotland on the S.S. Bayano on August 15th, 1940. As we sailed down the Clyde, we all stood at the rail on the upper deck, … Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey …
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… July 20, 1957 – Waterman My story starts in the summer of 1951, when I went on holidays with my family to a resort in Holland called "Het … my birthday March 28 (I turned 28), we became engaged. I promised to come to Canada as soon as possible. I did not consider myself an …
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… Yogurt Day and Gathering Furniture Time 0:01:42 Transcript OA: Oh we didn’t … was lost. So the only thing I recognized was yogurt. (laughs) So first day was yogurt day. (laughs) CB: On your first day was that all you and your daughter …
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… As a former British child war evacuee who came to Canada under the auspices of the Children's Overseas Reception Board … and me to be evacuated to Canada under the CORB plan. In due course we were selected and in early August 1940 were accompanied to an … seemed to be falling as close as the next street. Late the following day, along with 351 other CORB evacuees, we embarked in the Orient …
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… Background: Though of mixed German-Dutch parentage, I grew up in Germany (Saxony); by the time I was 18, I had lived through the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the Hitler-regime including six years of World War … Forces I not only became legitimized, but also exposed to the American way of life, and the idea of emigrating first occurred; however, the …
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… "I was just a toddler of about 2 years of age when we landed in Halifax. My parents long ago told me the story that when … Wiet meet. Then the Captain, gave Wiet and me permission to meet. Half way down the platform we embraced, and all the people on the ship …
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… Age on Arrival: 6 and 12 Emilia Pecchia I was almost 7 years old when we embarked on our journey to our promised land called Canada in 1959. … and my two sisters. It was the first time we had something so new. The day we left was a difficult and emotional one. I adored my grandfather …
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… Families June 1953 – Groote Beer It was in the early fifties. There were a lot of people in Holland talking about "going to Canada." Many people were looking for a new start in life, a new …