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… Edith Metcalfe Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child … 1918. Mother began training as a nurse in 1942 in Newcastle on Tyne. She remembers nursing German POWs - one in particular was very young and frightened, quite a sweet boy, she said. In late November 1944 Mother travelled to Richmond (in …
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… and Homiena van der Veen, arrived in Canada on October 23, 1953 on the Groote Beer at Pier 21 from The Netherlands. They came with their 5 … Ina nearly 2 years of age. Unlike many immigrants my parents decide to come to Canada not from economic need, but because my father wanted to …
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… were hard-working immigrants who made many sacrifices to ensure that their children and grandchildren had a better quality of life. Jim was … of 17 when his father passed away. He immigrated to Canada on November 26, 1955 at the young age of 19 via the Olympia with only a few cents …
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… Andrea's daughters. Story It was 1944 and WWII was nearing it's end. The times were both dangerous and exciting, fearful and adventurous and there were intense feelings at both ends of the spectrum. It was in this …
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… means who ran a tobacco company.By the time I was two years old, my father died in the flu epidemic of 1921 and my mother was forced to run … thing for a woman at that time. It was not a successful effort. She did not have time for the children, particularly for a boy. In … Able Seaman Alex Chelekower …
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… I was 19 years old when I left "Italia" from the port of Napoli on July 15,1956. Why I left … this period in my life. We owe our life to two aunts on my father's side. They provided for us and kept us together as a family. This was … Italy. The name of the representative was Leone Bernardo. I went to see him as soon as he arrived and his first comments was that I am too …
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… time as a moment of sharing. A moment of the year when we go to see family and friends. This Christmas tradition changes from one … about how Christmas happened at my home, and my childhood memories. I come from Burundi, a small country in Central Africa. Christmas is the … the family after the day Mass. The whole family put money together to hire a chef who would come to the house of one of our family members to …
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… because it's uhm, it's the pirates, the, uhm, it's the? the China Sea, it's the sea to the east of Vietnam, that's a lot of movement, so it's—but we … By Sea or Land: Refugees or Displaced Persons - Van-Nha Tran …
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… a patrol in Italy, my husband, Byron Delaney, and his partner Encel Hennigar, were spotted by a group of German soldiers who opened fire on them. As they took refuge behind a tree, Encel was killed by a shot to the neck and Byron was struck by a bullet that destroyed his … the German soldiers approached, he began to think that he would never see his home and loved ones again. This feeling intensified as a young …
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… “Two days later I, my younger brother and sister was sent of to a small country school. Not speaking one … summer for year’s. In the wintertime my sister and I went into the fishery. But that didn’t last to long (not enough money). At 14 I was … hired with my sister in the Tobacco factory. And the money was good.” (Lea van Muren, 1952) “As might be expected, the transition to a new …