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… labour or domestic work. [3] Not all of the settlement schemes were met with success. More than 1,000 of the families approved for the 3,000 Family Scheme withdrew from the program after receiving their initial loan. A plan to bring unemployed British …
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Time 0:04:55 Transcript You know, when you are working, life is so busy, you don’t have time to reflect. But once you’ve retired there is so much time. Actually I don’t know what to do. I have no projects, no deadlines, no place to go. I need to do something with mindfulness, but my mind feels like …
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… in Scotland and England. During one of these furloughs James would meet his "bride to be" (July 1940) and subsequently married Mary Price … and the Netherlands. The war ended with victory proclaimed on VE - Day May 8, 1945. On September 18, 1945 James' deployment ended and he … Scythia, disembarking at Quebec City. James had been guaranteed work after the end of the war and was hired by Cominco's Sullivan Mine in …
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… Biography: Yolanda Garcia was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia. She completed an undergraduate degree in systems engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander. Yolanda always dreamed of living in another country and planned to immigrate to the United … English and French full-time at the YMCA in Waterloo, Ontario and then completed a program that helped new immigrants find work in their …
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… Winston and Ella Leonard at a night club where she subsequently met James. Needless to say, he never made it to Scotland that trip. … 16, 1946) and disembarked at Pier 21 in Halifax on July 23, 1946. After a very excruciating sea voyage, Mary and Peter along with many …
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… the University of Toronto, Sept. 1941 is pictured below and includes 26 year old Arnold Shewan from Thamesford, Ontario. He had signed up in … is listed as RDF Mechanic (Radar) in Rosehearty Scotland, where he met his future wife, Grace Major . It was when he was on an “upgrading” … ended and he was repatriated and sent back to Canada in August 1945. After working in London for several months, Grace travelled to Canada …
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… Country of origin: England Name of individual: Ivy Williamson Story: My mother’s name was Ivy Edie Stevenson and she was born on January 26th, 1927 to Charles and Caroline Stevenson. She was 1 of 13 children … local pub called The Dorset Arms in Withyham, and this is where she met a Soldier named Keats Williamson . He belonged to the Royal …
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… on Wall of Service: CSM Donald Thomas Whitfield Service: Canadian Army, Lincoln & Welland Regiment Years of Service: 1941-1946 Medals … objective in the face of fanatical enemy opposition. On the night ½ May 1945 “A” Company made a night attack to cross the railway line … idea of what war was all about. Towards the end of September 1944, after much training, most of it in England it was my turn to find out. …
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… In March 1942, Soviet officials agreed to move the Polish army to Iran after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of the country. In search of food and … DPs aboard ship, including 123 Polish Catholic orphans . Several weeks after their arrival, the orphans were followed by another smaller group … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT …
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… by Western University's MA Public History Program Students Fugitive or Free? Prior to 1850, … States to the northern states were considered to be free. However, after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the northern … existed for all free blacks. The Act Against Slavery , passed in 1793, made Upper Canada (part of what is now Ontario) the first British …