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… Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to get … in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done …
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… Time 0:02:31 Transcript I had incidents, that’s again us being a newcomer in Prince Albert, that’s later when we had the two children my … Switzerland in 1947. When Annemarie was 16, she started studying to become a home economics teacher. After four years of college, she … the Canadian government helped Heinz find a job at a manufacturing company. After one year, the couple moved to Prince Albert, …
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… Isabella (Ella), and brother, Raeburn (Rae), especially after the death of their elder brother, Robert, in 1934. In 1940 she began … in the war and away from their own families to the Thomson home for Sunday dinner and Douglas, the 19-year-old Canadian, became a regular … at St. David’s on July 2 (the Sunday nearest Canada’s Dominion Day) wearing a robe made by one of Jan’s friends, cut from her own …
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… a large ship. For me, it was my first cruise. I had a good trip as the weather was beautiful. We reached Gibraltar during the daytime but the … stop was in Lisbon, Portugal for five hours, visiting the city. On our way again, no one became ill as it was beautiful weather with calm seas. I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 12, 1962 at Pier 21, the customs and …
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… Children April 2, 1954 The move to Canada seemed imminent. My father’s parents along with some of his … the Atlantic was a very difficult one. It was very rough seas when we crossed, and I can still visualize the waves coming on part of the …
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… September 1965 The Trip It was on the 24th of September 1965, the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. …
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… At the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, we collect and tell the stories of immigrants who came to Canada and continue to come to Canada to make a new home for themselves. Some of these stories … Most recently, we hosted our travelling exhibit called Canada: Day 1 . This travelling exhibit explores the memories, impressions and …
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… to Toronto. I didn’t speak English. We had no money. We opened a convenience store, and I worked every day. Sometimes if it was quiet in the …
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… and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and … it was all not easy. My hope was gone. I feared I was going to die, away from my family. Our music mission there wasn’t fulfilled but … of immigrants. I visited people who were left alone by their family to die at hospitals. In my career of music production, I decided to help …
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… Halifax to Halifax and Points West By Dorothy Schofield McIlveen On the morning of June 20, 1946, I boarded the train in Halifax, Yorkshire, for London, leaving Mum and Dad …