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… Research institute, was (am) married with one small daughter. However, long before the war, I read, as a child, a story about a boy who … while the wind and snow was whirling around our house near the Zuiderzee. The war came, we went to school and then occupation. Then the … to book passage. I went alone first so that my wife and child could come later after I was established. In Rotterdam (now one of the …
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… Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities Screen text with audio I was born in the … is lomo saltado, or stir-fried beef. It is a fusion between local ingredients, like the potato, and the method of sautéing beef first used by … places of origin, re-creating them in Canada as they added new ingredients to the mix—as well as new neighbours, new families, and new …
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… packing crate. There was much crying as family and friends wished them well. The departure day arrived and Mother's family took us to the pier in Rotterdam …
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Time 0:03:49 Transcript Mom used to tell me the story where I was born. She told me I was born in Bhutan, which is a beautiful Himalayan country. I don’t remember living there, but I remember the day we left; when I was crying with hunger. My parents are carrying nothing. They don’t have anything …
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… man "Charlie Brown". This is the story of my Grandfather or "Papa" as we know him, who volunteered for service in the war against Germany … and began his military training in Camp Aldershot and Camp Debert, Nova Scotia. He was enlisted in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a … of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day invasion. Because of problems with their landing craft, he wasn't …
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… Children I was only seven when my brothers, sisters and I were told we were moving to a place called Canada and would live on a huge ship for about nine days to get there. … took its place! Strangers walked into our house taking our furniture away with them. Suitcases and trunks mysteriously showed up everywhere. …
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… 1, 1999. July 1 of this year marked a special anniversary : 25 years since our building first re-opened its doors as a museum. Pier 21 served as a gateway … from 1928 to 1971. Nearly a million people arrived through the building, disembarking from passenger ships on their way to new lives all … New perspectives: 25 years after our grand opening …
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… 1, 1999. July 1 of this year marked a special anniversary : 25 years since our building first re-opened its doors as a museum. Pier 21 served as a gateway … from 1928 to 1971. Nearly a million people arrived through the building, disembarking from passenger ships on their way to new lives all … New perspectives: 25 years after our grand opening …
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… about it. The time comes that you only pray that God will show you the way; at least this is the way it was with us. Under God’s guidance and blessing we left Holland on February 13, 1951 from Rotterdam on the big ship …
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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 …