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… As part of our travelling Canada: Day 1 exhibit, we asked visitors to share their thoughts on immigration to Canada by writing on luggage tags. These personal stories, messages for new Canadians and inspired packing lists are a selection from the … behind their friends, family, good jobs and the sense of security that comes from being surrounded by people who understood their native …
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… home and dad as a labourer for a construction company at the age of fourteen. Next mom and dad endured more than five years of Nazi … see our family again. The cost of travel across the Atlantic for a visit was considered totally out of reach back in those days. We … first year in school in the fall. We lived in the old farmhouse for four years until it was torn down to make way for a large box store …
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… “A present of my past to your future” Written 1975-7 There were some people, relatives to my Dad, and they came over from Canada for a visit. They talked all about Canada, how good it was there and that …
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… Bob Cunneyworth, an Airman with the Royal Canadian Air Force. In doing so, she set the wheels in motion for what would be a challenging sea … of these individuals became notable spies for the allied war effort. (For further details, refer to a book "Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire …
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… 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started before the Second World War began. … between the soldier and me, and we weren’t aware of it, I couldn’t say for sure, but anyway she asked me if I would mind going to her …
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… his wife holds a bouquet of flowers. He is nervous and excited. He is coming home in a sense and he cannot stop thinking about what brought him to Pier 21 the first time, all that had happened before and all that has happened since. A woman stands in the foyer of … of Germany in 1933. Jews, Marianne writes, were not even allowed to visit the beach or walk in the park. She notes that although ninety …
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… 1945. Pease were declared during her crossing. Chris was a baby so diapers etc. needed to be washed etc. Mom commented on how small her room was and of course she … She mentioned how young mothers helped each other with babysitting so each could get a break. I did take my mother to Pier 21, and she …
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… here. Like you did for Digital StoryTelling) Time 0:01:49 Transcript: So, it was very, if I were to sum up my childhood, I would say it was a very comfortable, safe, solid childhood where I had the … and resources to do well at school, to have nice activities. It was—it was a good place to grow up. Now, by the later years of high …
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… "There are things of which I may not speak, There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And … the poem. To me those words mean that I have seen and experienced so much during my childhood in Danzig; that the things are hard to … and hatred, people have dreams of freedom and liberty, which, may come true to some of them but may not come to others. We had our dreams …
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… Sofia Dochmacka Bain Polish Immigrant and Righteous Gentile Nelly May … Dochmacka Bain I am very proud, that Dr. Dehav invited me here today, so, that I will have the opportunity, to tell you about two brave … and were beaten mercilessly, mocking them at their own pleasure to the joy of the Polish and Russian inhabitants, who were happy to get rid of …