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… Can I search for an immigration record on the Museum’s website? No, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 does not have immigration …
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… full of activity . The miniature representation is a favourite of many visitors of the Museum . The model, roughly 8 feet by 4 feet, depicts a … gateways. Between 1928 and 1971, Pier 21 was the point of arrival for nearly a million immigrants - mostly from Europe - arriving by sea. … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the …
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… full of activity . The miniature representation is a favourite of many visitors of the Museum . The model, roughly 8 feet by 4 feet, depicts a … gateways. Between 1928 and 1971, Pier 21 was the point of arrival for nearly a million immigrants - mostly from Europe - arriving by sea. … even harder to detect: At the head of one of the trains is a steam locomotive carrying a load of real coal , which Conlin retrieved from the …
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… fifties. There were a lot of people in Holland talking about "going to Canada." Many people were looking for a new start in life, a new … to be vaccinated and X-Rayed. This was done by Canadian doctors and personnel, with the help of an interpreter, because we did not speak a … of English. When the time came near for our departure, we had movers come to pack our furniture into a large crate. We slept on the floor …
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… Emigrating To Canada September 1956 The photograph below was taken in front of our … them in many decades. Some of my Dad's brothers eventually came for a visit to Canada. My Mom's brother and his wife visited us twice. I … you thought was occupied by your relative as the plane took off at the far end of the runway. You'd wave and wave till the plane disappeared …
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… with the local resistance to harass the enemy with a strength that far exceeded their number. Arie jumped three times into his native … in the Nijmegen area, partially depicted in the movie 'The Bridge Too Far'. His final jump was near Assen. Bad weather forced his team into, … and in the Market Gardening Attack, called in the film "A Bridge Too Far", and later on in the northern part of Holland to free Kamp …
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… and David Livingstone Palmer and was named after Leonard Hodgkinson, Senior 4 th Engineer on the Titanic. He grew up in Hove, Sussex in southern England in a “Victorian” household. His mother was very stern … On the way back to Cape Breton, he had a layover in Halifax and visited a recruiting office. They accepted him into the Army with the …
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… the capital city of Drenthe. I was a proud Dutch war bride who came to Canada through Pier 21, Halifax, on July 22, 1946, after a five-day … us all. Some of my earlier sketches I kept and brought with me to Canada as part of my few valuables. Later in life I took a great … of a pandemic known as Covid-19. While I had hoped to have my family visit for my birthday celebration this August 2020, the …
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… Marzo Napolitano, and their journey to Canada and the better life they sought. Life was difficult in Southern Italy in the 1940s and 1950s. Luigi had returned from three …
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… well this journey was organized. It must have been a mammoth job for some Department and yet it all came off so very well. Ever since George … November 1945 I could hardly wait to find out when I would travel to Canada. I don't remember being very apprehensive, it never occurred to … to be told that it still would be quite some time before my turn would come. So when I received a telegram from that Canadian Wives Bureau on …