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  • Artist-in-Residence Winter 2024 – Santiago Guzmán
    … to develop his play Long-Distance-Short (working title). On March 26, 2025 a local audience was treated to a participatory …
  • Elio D'Alessio
    … Italy and finally Canada. My father Elio was born on November 26th 1926 in Chieti Scalo in the region of Abruzzo which is in central Italy … and there is where he started his new life with work, work and more work as caterer for many different events and brought smiles and …
  • Giovanni Diodato Guglietti
    … and future wife, Concetta DeGasperis . They were married on August 26, 1961 and soon started a family of their own welcoming in to the …
  • By Sea or Land: Refugees or Displaced Persons - Van-Nha Tran
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 3:23 Transcript (This video is only available in … that's a lot of movement, so it's—but we left the country in small boats, you might say rowboats. So, uhm, about? like, in the case of … we? I left Vietnam on January 21st 1988. Yes, it's true, so January 26 is the anniversary of my marriage. I? I got to Thailand by boat, but …
  • Private Norman Peter Kelly
    … France, Belgium, Holland and Germany Demobilization: January 22, 1946 (26 years, 7 months) In May of 1942 Private Kelly embarked from Pier 21 … had circled the site, it turned out to be a spy plane. Later, several more planes returned and attacked. Thirteen British, American and …
  • George S and Geraldine G Zwaagstra
    … his parents Sjouke and Anna Zwaagstra and younger brother Broer (Gerald). His older brother Pier (Peter) arrived at Pier 21 on March 29, … arrived at Pier 21 on July 12, 1954 with her parents Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma and younger brother Jan. See Freerk and Ebeltje Jansma > George & Geraldine July 27, 1957 Hubbards NS George & …
  • Erika Hertel Danner
    … Halifax, Nova Scotia Date of Arrival: March 31, 1960 Age on Arrival: 26 Erika Hertel was born Sept 23, 1934, the oldest of four siblings. …
  • Corporal Leonard Palmer
    … Grade “B” and began to receive Tradesman’s Rate of Pay. On May 26, 1944 he was transferred to No. 8 Sub-section and proceeded “on …
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  • Quinto Odorizzi and Rita Leonardi
    … new home. A year and a half later, Quinto went back to Tuenno for a visit. This is when he met Rita Leonardi. Rita was also from Tuenno, … to visit family and also enjoy it when family and friends from Italy come to visit here in Canada. Their biggest passion is spending time …

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