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… his wife Maria to Canada on March 5, 1954, he thought to himself, “welcome home”. This wasn’t the first time Theo would set voyage from the … where they where stationed until August 1950. Though he never attended high school due to the outbreak of the Second World War, Theo took a … to Agricultural College for three days a week (a 20 km bike ride one way) – both of which would prove useful in the years to come. After the …
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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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… 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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… 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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… found an apartment and I was to report to a hostel in London, England. We were not allowed to communicate with anyone. Sailing orders came and … was enormous and there was a gangplank leading up to it. There was no way I could make it up the gangplank and I knew it. I don't usually …
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… THE TALE OF A UKRANIAN IMMIGRANT Irene Turczyniak I was born in Western Ukraine in 1924 in the village in Bohatkiwci. I lived there … until I finished elementary school. Then, my parents enrolled me in high school in the picturesque city of Berezhany. There I attended … Ukraine. The border was patrolled and no one could cross. On the third day, a long, empty freight train was passing through the village and …
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… mother Teresina (aged 29), sister Tonina (aged 2), and me (aged 6), were the last to make the crossing aboard the Vulcania in 1960. The … us during this initial part of our journey and stayed throughout the day until we familiarized ourselves with the Porto. That evening after …
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… brothers, oldest Victor, Jim, Ron and Bryan. Two brothers, Jim and Ron were evacuated to Devon during the war for two years. In 1949, Mom and Dad decided to immigrate to Canada. My Mother had a sister in Toronto. Dad's intentions were to … I remember it quite well, she was a beautiful ship. I can see why they called it The Beautiful. We arrived at Pier 21 on September 19 …
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… My brother, Rolf, and I left from Antwerp on April 20, 1952 in the SS Leerdam, 8,854 GRT, her last port of … on the Black Market. I had a friend who worked at the Frankfurt Railway Station in an office for American Personnel so it was fairly easy …
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… 1951. She was a young 21 yr. old and I was a mere 9 months old when we left Italy for Canada. We had a suitcase and a trunk (to this date … ship "Saturnia". We set sail from Genova, Italy to Halifax with a 15 day ocean sail crossing. The ship was completely full of people my …