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… Chinese immigrants were required to enter only at a port of entry, and any immigrant of Chinese descent outside the admissible classes could … Problem. Regarding Chinese Canadians, Stevens asserts that “in many respects the Chinese are the least objectionable of all classes of … as “finding some new reason for excluding Hindus [rather] than from any actual evidence we have that the Hindus coming to Canada have or …
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… Families 1953 – Groote Beer When my parents decided to come to Canada in 1953, I was faced with a huge dilemma. I had become a … killing him. He worked from 9 am to 2 or 3 am the early morning, next day. 6 days a week, and on his day off he slept all day to catch up on …
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… prisoner for eight years “another story”. Two of the older children died because they didn’t want to go back and died heart broken. The little one, Anthony, was only one year old. He … to Montreal in 1952, Uncle Anthony Mandato said to Uncle Giuseppe “come to live in Windsor, so it will be easier for me to visit you”. One …
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… that time there was an industrial development and many farmers abandoned the land to work in factories and offices. From 1945 to 1948 there was a little work in cities like Treviso and Mestre rebuilding all that had been destroyed by the bombarding during the war. At … food for the train trip. That evening we boarded the train for the 2 day, 1 night trip. We stopped in Toronto on May 11 at about 7:00 am. …
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… An excerpt on immigration to Canada in 1920, taken from John Leyten’s memoirs “A present of my past … so they were going to sail across the ocean as soon as possible. That day finally came and having sold everything that they couldn’t take … all the way to Calgary, Alberta, North America. So on the appointed day, we went to Antwerp, Belgium, where this big steamship was waiting …
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… Gardener for eleven years. During the war we had lots of damage done to our business. There were three boys in our family and my younger … to get married before we left Holland, but the closer it came to the day of getting married and leaving the country for Canada, a sudden …
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… Parry Sound, Ontario. Recently my wife and I were on a bus trip (15 days) that ended up in Halifax. We were told about Pier 21. Since I am … in my nickel's worth as to ‘how, why, and what for' I wanted to come to Canada. I worked for my father as a Market Gardener for eleven years. During the war we had lots of damage done to our business. There were three boys in our family and my younger …
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… need a better future for our children". The people in Holland had just come through a war and were trying to rebuild, but there was no housing and no money. At that time the governments of Canada and Holland and other countries as well, were setting up … our feelings were and immigration was never discussed, but not every one, including me was happy with this decision but no input was needed …
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… Québec May, 1922 and served as an infantry soldier in Les Fusiliers Mont Royal. Date of enlistment: January, 1943. Date of discharge from … army: August 27, 1945. He disembarked at Juno Beach two weeks after D-Day, advanced inland for six weeks, taken prisoner of war near Falaise …
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… at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel …