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  • Pocket Change by Ken
    Time 0:02:45 Transcript From its creation out of Lake Agassiz to today, Lake Winnipeg has long been generous to those who understood its opportunity. lt has been a supplier of food to my family and other peoples from lceland who settled along its shores. Lake Winnipeg also provided the spark that …
  • Michele Nicola Carbone
    … days – this is how long our wonderful Babbo, Dad, and Nonno blessed the earth with his energy, his enthusiasm, and his joy, until he was … our favourite photos of your Bisnonno features his signature signoff - “A te un ricordo, e a me, la felecita di essera ricordato.” For you a … Michele Nicola Carbone …
  • Lieutenant Ryszard Z.S. Paudyn
    … Paudyn 1921-2008 Richard was born in Warsaw on November 27th 1921. He was baptized in St. Andrew Catholic Church in Warsaw. His parents were Wanda (nee Blichewicz) and Stefan Paudyn. The Blichewicz family lived …
  • Jean Shephard Laffin
    … PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started before … in after school just in time for a cup of tea and a sticky bun. The President was a Canadian whose name is Mrs. Bleech, and in the Parish … pay for high school fees, or smart enough to pass the entrance exams. (I guess I wasn’t.) Anyway, I had just started work at the Boy’s …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … Clarecia Christie was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at the University of the West Indies in Kingston where she earned a master’s degree in international …
  • Alfred and Liselotte Kraus
    … Alfred and Liselotte Kraus were a couple of newlyweds when they decided to leave their hometown of Kirchheim/Teck, Germany. … boarded the Arosa Kulm on December 8, 1953. After a very rough twelve day voyage they landed in Halifax on December 20, 1953. They continued …
  • Ralph, Sheila, Keith, Denis Fuller
    … on the Empress of France from Liverpool, England. We travelled to the South of Ireland as the sea to the North was too rough for their normal route at a speed of 26 knots. Ralph had a job waiting with George A. Chase in Sussex, N.B. The family grew to 6 children scattered across …
  • Monybany Dau
    … names—calling names, talking bad about black people, so I decided to leave the scene, but they won’t let me. They follow me outside the … here, go back home. And it signed it three cross which is KKK. Yeah. When I came to Red Deer I start working at the gas station which … my best after six languages, you know. Biography: Monybany Minyang Dau was born in Atar, Sudan in 1975. During the Second Sudanese Civil …
  • Bruno and Rosanna Bellissimo
    … trip and to buy a house. It took us four hours, by car, to get to the city of Naples where we boarded the ship "Conte Biancamano". I will never forget the look on my mother's face when she had to say good-bye to her mother because she knew deep in her heart that she … went back to Italy to visit in 1967. I have never been back. One day I hope to go and see the little town where I was born. The "Conte …
  • After Almost 60 Years Apart, a Family Finds Each Other
    … that we have to use other ways, which tend to be less detailed and can lead us down the wrong path or to “dead ends.” However, not every … search in this case results in such a fate. The following, story is a good example of that. It all began when I came to work one day in May 2012 to discover this lovely email from a gentleman in …

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