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… By Elsie Mills I stood at the window today looking across a field of sweet corn. So many years have passed and so much has happened. It’s August, 1999, a beautiful day. The sun is shining and the sky looks so huge. That was the first … supposed to be at a dance, but I was! Ed was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I …
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… BRIEF STORY by Nicholas Sbarra Oh Canada! A pleasant light breeze was sweeping the air in the sunny mid-morning of Tuesday, June 26, 1951. The USNS General Harry Taylor , a U.S. merchant ship which … for the moment when the uncomfortable ocean crossing would finally come to an end. We were taciturn while the sound of the waves striking …
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… Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated July 20, 2021) Introduction: Accommodation and Detention at Pier 21 Pier 21 is best known as Halifax’s … 21’s immigration quarters. Pier 21 operated two kinds of quarters: “accommodation” for people who were delayed due to minor issues, and “detention” for people held for security reasons . The accommodation dormitories ran along the west (inland) wall of the second …
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… Canada on March 2nd, 2008, immigrating from our southern roots of Rende ( Cosenza) located in the Province of Calabria, Italy. I was only 3 … have the opportunity of visiting the famous Pier No. 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Port which our ship docked. I immediately sensed an … not understanding the language or culture. With the help of sponsors, we settled in the Dundas and Lisgar area of Toronto and soon after my …
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… was born June 5, 1921 in Gendringen (Gld) The Netherlands. We left Holland Feb. 11 and went by train to Paris. We stayed 1 night in Paris to go the next day to Le Havre, to board the "Samaria II", owned by the Cunard line. …
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… Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …
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… Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …
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… March 29, 1953 were all of these things and more. Fifty years to the day of their arrival at Pier 21 the three surviving members of that … was a young structural engineer that had been sponsored by Avro to come to Canada and work on the Avro Arrow project. When asked about … romances, Leonard Read, with a telling twinkle in his eye, murmured, "We were shy English bachelors." Of his first impressions of Canada …
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… and did Commando training. He was in 'blue group' and landed in Caan on 'D' day. He survived two plane crashes during the war and is very lucky to … place to raise children, so my father decided to immigrate to Canada. We left Liverpool on July 3, 1954 on the Franconia and arrived in …
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… troop ship, S.S. Volendam. Then traveled by train to Barry's Bay via Montreal and Ottawa. Worked on the sponsor's farm near Palmer … as our liberators in the spring of 1945 also influenced my decision to come to Canada. There were also many reports from Canada that it was a … probably 250 men sleeping in the same cabin and the bunks were stacked 3-high. The women and children had to sleep in separate cabins. During …