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… people in the northern parts of the Netherlands skating along the canals. Soccer is also another tremendously popular sport in the … ( Nieuwjaarsdag ) - January 1 Good Friday ( Goede Vrijdag ) - [Not an official holiday] Easter Monday ( Tweede paasdag ) King's Day ( … 4 [Not an official holiday] Liberation Day ( Bevrijdingsdag ) – May 5 [Official holiday only every 5 years] Ascension Day ( Hemelvaartsdag ) …
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… de vriende venters en een van familie. Ja als men niet meer spreken kan, zegt men het met bloemen. Dit zullen we dan ook nooit vergeten bij … word men als ‘t ware geschokt ik weet niet wat voor een gevoel dit is, maar jongen wat was ‘t koud Langs de reling en op de kade je kont …
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… 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 … hiring office on Hasting Street, and got a job at Somass Division Sawmill in Port Alberni. Started working June 3, 1951, and retired from … Bureau and asked to join them as inspector, still being at the same mill, worked the next 26 years as inspector. I married in 1961 and have …
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… Edith Metcalfe Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child … in particular was very young and frightened, quite a sweet boy, she said. In late November 1944 Mother travelled to Richmond (in Yorkshire) … so happened that my father, Earl Weston Wallace, along with several of his army buddies stationed at nearby Catterick Camp, joined the wedding …
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… opened new exhibitions on the history of the Pier 21 National Historic Site of Canada and at the end of June will unveil a new exhibition on … new exhibits. Introduction From the eighteenth century onwards, Quebec City’s migrating local populace and incoming European immigrants had a … Port of Entry, Process and Gatekeepers – A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec during the Great Depression …
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… supply British and North American troops with food and equipment. This was to complement the private evacuation of middle class children. … children. Less than a month later, the first C.O.R.B. party had set sail for Canada from the port of Liverpool. On June 21, 1940, Prime … in Halifax. We spent the night on board ship and I marveled at the city lights. The next day we disembarked at Pier 21, went through the …
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… by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 13, 2022) “I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers … quote—and more particularly, a better understanding of its context—has a few lessons left for us in approaching Canada’s immigration … Kinship, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Canadian Immigration History …
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… Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
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… of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Conte Biancamano Date of Arrival: November 11, 1954 Left Italy 2 November 1954, All Souls Day, arrived in Canada … mother, widow sister (my mother) and daughter (me) to reunite the family in Canada near Uncle Tony in Cleveland. Usually brother and sister … seen for over 35 years and her son Uncle Anthony she hadn’t seen for 26 years with the wife Sarah and children all from Cleveland, Ohio. Of …
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… Heading for a Good Life in Canada By Carla White When Theodorus Jacobs (a.k.a. Theo) saw the vessel that would take him and 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 Netherlands upon the Groote Beer (Great Bear), but …