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… behind a new bride (Lina) and infant daughter (Bettina), Antonio went to Brussels, Belgium to work in the coal mines. While there, a few … purchased and another daughter Cesarina was born same year. To this day, his 95-year old wife Lina still lives in this same home. He lived at this house until his death on September 16, 1999. MANCINI (nee Gualtieri) Lina & LEARDI (nee Mancini) Bettina Along with other …
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… of Aloys (Anglicized as Alois) Wilhelm Escher, born March 13, 1906 #26 Kampstrasse, Gladbeck, Westfallen, Germany. That particular house … his meager salary, to buy gum and cigarettes for the prisoners in a WWI - POW camp he passed each day when mined at the collier. Al told his family in America in later …
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… The Trip It was on the 24th of September 1965, the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. …
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… but when the curling match was over, I was happy to see that dad had come home. He figured that running back was a little much. In open … came. Wave after wave is going over the side. Finally, a fisherman comes to try to give us a hand. He is able to latch on, and Ron was … my temperature through the rectum until about 11 oclock, the nurse comes in and says I'll take the temperature the regular way. And I …
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… then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years … something for the society. I like to be a volunteer to pay back to the community. Every spring, we plant trees. In 2013, we knitted many …
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… immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to sail to … continuity, in a time of change. Fenton is here to make people feel welcome. Left: Pat & Teddy Toronto, summer 1954 [DI2019.177.2]. Right: …
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… immigrating to Canada from their home country often bring toys for comfort and a sense of safety . In fact, our Canadian Immigration Story … about herself in the third person: She cuddled Teddy, her constant companion and whispered in his ear, ”we are really going to sail to … continuity, in a time of change. Fenton is here to make people feel welcome. Left: Pat & Teddy Toronto, summer 1954 [DI2019.177.2]. Right: …
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… My family is originally from Hardenberg in the Netherlands, and we immigrated to Canada in 1953. We left Rotterdam on April 15th of … that year on the S.S. Waterman and arrived in Halifax on April 22nd, a day ahead of schedule. At the time, I was 10 years old, having been …
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… Single Men and Women October 28, 1953 – Groote Beer Tuesday Oct 20th departure day finally arrived. My fiancée had the use of … The final goodbyes had to be said in the departure hall just before I went through customs and check in. Dad thought that it would be a final … not possible. At 4:00pm the ms Groote Beer cast off and we were underway. First stop was Le Havre where we arrived the following morning to …
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… Why and how I came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful … World War when we lost everything. Early 1944 I was evacuated with my high school to a mountain side south of Vienna from where we had to …