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by Steven Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 21, 2021) “The problem is a vexing one” A Formal Agreement with the Government: the Privilegium Some of the earliest European agricultural settlers in Canada’s Prairie West were Russian Mennonites. Two disparate political events provided a crucial …
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… the Soviet Union invaded Poland, the country had to fight two enemies; one from the East and one from the West. Richard was transported by … Władysław Anders. It is hard to imagine this untrained army of many thousands. They got some clothing and food from Britain, but the Russians … in 1944. After the war his regiment was shipped to England on the ship HMS “Mauritania”. In post war England there was shortage of everything …
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… Antonio P. Picco …
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… Name: Caronia , Cunard Date of Arrival: April 21, 1929 My grandmother, Ms. Aili Edit Kinnunen, at the age of 28 set sail for Canada. She … Halifax in 1929 on the Caronia, Cunard Line. She was the daughter of Pekka Kinnunen and Anna Hentunen. She was born in 1901 and according to records in …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated August 21, 2020) Origins of Canada’s Refugee Determination System The origins of Canada’s refugee determination system can be traced back to 1922, when the League of Nations (a predecessor … Canada’s Refugee Determination System …
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… CPO Thomas J. Picco …
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… from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, weighing many tons, tumble to the ground. Political prisoners were freed from jails. As the army troops moved in the fighting … old and I, who was eight at the time, were told that we were going to visit our relatives, but this couple never came with us. None of our …
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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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… Canada.” Special correspondent Frank Yeigh followed the movement of newcomers through the landing experience. If there was an indication of … examined a second time. Once medically cleared, passengers were visited by a trained corps of inspectors who ascertained the validity … British, 2,398 Ukrainians, 824 Belgians, 688 Italians, 593 Germans, 261 French, 106 Polish, and 3,651 persons of many other diverse …
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… once again gave thanks to the arrival of a son, Arsene Heyneman, my one and only sibling I would ever have. Although I did not necessarily … life and remembered having servants to take care of all the daily household tasks. At age 11, my father sold the farm and built a house … ensure we would all cooperate, my brother Arsene was taken along with many other young men in the town and sent to a Nazi concentration camps. …