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Time 0:04:18 Transcript Perhaps growing up in a military lifestyle gave me the courage to face new environments and an adventurous spirit to explore the world. And yet, never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day I would be travelling halfway across the world all on my own. But as …
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… four girls, and we were always discouraged by close relatives and the community for only having girl children. My aunts would say, why does … it change my father’s mind? But he said to her, I don’t want her to come back one day and say, you didn’t let me study further. After my … time in my life I felt no one was judging me for being a girl. I had complete freedom to think and do what I like. I met a lot of …
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… sailing a Soling in 1972 and took part in two World championships. Was Commodore of the Brockville Yacht Club from 1991 to 1993. …
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… Charles Elliott Brown Service # F67753 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps June 1940 to July 1945 To my Mother, Diane … Camp Aldershot and Camp Debert, Nova Scotia. He was enlisted in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a Medic. Charlie, as he was known by … Elizabeth, arriving in England July 31, 1941 and would not return to Canada until 1945. My Mother, Diane was born in March 1941 and was only …
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… to be an escort for a little boy named Johnie, age 3. He was coming to Canada to be with his father who was a Canadian soldier in the European campaign. His mother had abandoned … we got closer to inhabited areas, little towns etc., the locals would come and wave to us. Sometimes the train would stop and some of the …
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… people here in the Yukon, I began to believe in myself. I learned to become a professional child care worker and after years I decided to go …
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… hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to travel to Canada on the Vulcania on April 1, 1955 departing from the Port of Naples. Well, our … stops during our journey. Our first stop was in Palermo, then Genoa, Cannes, Barcelona, Gibraltar, Casablanca, Lisbon and then Halifax. This …
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… here at the museum is “what made you leave your home and decide to come to Canada?” Some respond that it is for new opportunities, to improve … after I landed in Toronto without realizing that I would need Canadian coins to use a pay phone. I had 50 American dollars in my pocket, but …
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… here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the citizenship paper and this—how I will say? I become a real person again when I receive that document. CB: What did … me. Let me free here. That you are here, that you belong to a community and you can do things for the community too. That was one of …
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Difference in School and Speaking Too Properly Time 0:01:19 Transcript ..the school system was different, um, like I said, I struggled in math and science because I felt like I didn’t know what they were talking about. But I was really far ahead in terms of English and history. And I guess that’s …