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  • LACW Grace Shewan
    … and I did. I was sent on a 6 week course to learn all about it. One drawback was that you could not go over your notes in the evening … sworn to an oath of secrecy which was not fully lifted for 50 years. Can you imagine in this day and age, something involving so many people … a secret at all?!! The ‘Secrets of Radar’ Museum in our London, ON has a great deal to show. There was quite a Canadian connection since …
  • L/Cpl William Heinz
    … Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether … on promises their predecessors had made to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers willing to live and make improvements on the land. This …
  • Sgt. Elroy Heinz
    … Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether … on promises their predecessors had made to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers willing to live and make improvements on the land. This …
  • Emmanuel and Rose Flaig
    … Nanaimo, BC 24 August 2015 For the past 120 years, my extended family has had the privilege of blazing a trail to and from Pier 21. Whether … on promises their predecessors had made to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers willing to live and make improvements on the land. This …
  • Pav Bhaji - Arvinda and Preena Chauhan
    … off the plane, my last question to him was this: If I should try just one food from this crazy, bustling city, what would it be? His answer … to taste. Step 5: For the pavs: Slice the buns (pavs) in half, leaving one edge attached. Apply a generous amount of butter on each and toast … The mother-daughter duo focused their classes on spices, the cornerstone of Indian cooking, teaching indispensable flavouring techniques so …
  • Tom Weisz
    … With the generous support of Tom Weisz, in honour of his father Arthur Weisz, this resource trunk was designed to help students and researchers with … research activities and enhance presentations and papers. Please feel free to explore the many compartments of the trunk. If you do not see …
  • Carmine, Antonietta Perri and Family
    … I was 9 years old when I emigrated to Canada in May, 1957 with my mother Antonietta … and I were seasick, we spent most of the days in bed. As a result, to this day I refuse to ever go on a cruise. My brothers Giuseppe (Joe), … They explored the upper deck, saw dolphins, and were treated to free movies. My mother befriended a young woman and her brother who …
  • Andy Alfoldy
    … left Hungary in 1945 and wound up in Germany via Austria. My grandfather and father were both medical doctors, My father was a surgeon with … he became officially a prisoner of war, though the Americans found his skills and abilities very useful. He spoke fairly adequate English, …
  • Katrina Ewanishan Yurko
    … "Kay: A Story 85 Years in the Making" I always wondered what would be the one word to best describe my mother. It was a challenge to put it … my uncle Jaroslaw Iwaniszyn (Larry Ewanishan), who got to travel for free because he was only a baby. Even though a year had passed, they …
  • Exploring Pier 21’s Immigration Quarters
    … 21 Pier 21 is best known as Halifax’s receiving station for almost one million immigrants to Canada, and as a key embarkation facility … most of the people who passed through the waterfront facility only saw one of the most important areas of the site if something went wrong … such as handcuffs or shackles, appropriate to containing dangerous prisoners. [3] A person being detained in one of these cells would pass …

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