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… packing crate. There was much crying as family and friends wished them well. The departure day arrived and Mother's family took us to the pier in Rotterdam …
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… about it. The time comes that you only pray that God will show you the way; at least this is the way it was with us. Under God’s guidance and blessing we left Holland on February 13, 1951 from Rotterdam on the big ship …
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Time 0:03:49 Transcript Mom used to tell me the story where I was born. She told me I was born in Bhutan, which is a beautiful Himalayan country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we left; when I was crying with hunger. My parents are carrying nothing. They don’t have anything …
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… Children I was only seven when my brothers, sisters and I were told we were moving to a place called Canada and would live on a huge ship for about nine days to get there. … took its place! Strangers walked into our house taking our furniture away with them. Suitcases and trunks mysteriously showed up everywhere. …
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… is to the airmen of the Royal Canadian Air Force and is what "in Flander's Fields" was to the Canadian Military in the First World War." John Magee enlisted as a recent high school graduate, son of missionary parents in China, a very quite, … his slight build and extreme youth for such a formidable task ahead. We served on the same Ontario base in the early part of the war, thus …
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… House in Canada I remember singing as a child a popular tune that went like this: “C’erà una casetta piccolina in Canada, con tanti pesciolini et tanti fiori di lilà, e tutte le ragazze che passavano di là, dicevono che bella la …
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… came: CANADIANS .They rolled in to my village on big tanks looking well fed and healthy. What a beautiful sight and to this day it stands vivid in my memory. No more curfews and an end to the …
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… man "Charlie Brown". This is the story of my Grandfather or "Papa" as we know him, who volunteered for service in the war against Germany … and began his military training in Camp Aldershot and Camp Debert, Nova Scotia. He was enlisted in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a … of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day invasion. Because of problems with their landing craft, he wasn't …
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… It may not come as a surprise for many that the head of the National Arts Centre … of music were less than ideal, it helped steer him down a path to become one of this country’s best known champion of the arts. In 1947, … that immigration has been one of the major ways in which Canada has become the kind of country it is in the early part of this century,” he …
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… groups who once passed through Pier 21; an immigrant, a refugee (more commonly referred to as a Displaced Person at the time), a Veteran, a … various people referred to Pier 21 as “Canada’s Ellis Island”. This comparison to New York’s famed port of immigrant arrival helped people … ceremony was a core part of the event, another continuing tradition. Becoming a Canadian citizen is a huge milestone in the immigration …