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… Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large … as a lot of work. At the time we had six children, all of whom were housed with relatives for at least two months while preparations were … the bottoms of our shoes were scrubbed with disinfectant. This was done to prevent a current outbreak of a terrible cow disease from …
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… brother and sister was sent of to a small country school. Not speaking one work of English, we arrived with lunch pail in hand, children … be expected, the transition to a new country was not necessarily an easy one. The change was particularly hard for mom and dad who were, to … be of little help. Within the first couple of months of our arrival in Canada, mom and dad seriously considered taking our family back to the …
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… beginning. Chub's military records reveal that he only had three one-week opportunities to get to know her before they married on April … their first winter in Manitoba with Chub's family. A nephew in the household recalled what it was like for her: "Aunt Becky stayed with us one winter in our log house, I guess when Chub had to spend so much time in Deer Lodge [the …
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… I was born in a small city of Sora (Province) Frosinone, Italy in 1940. I have one brother and two sisters. My parents were … We were brought up as a very close lovable family. My father was an ice cream man by trade and our city all knew him as Il Gelataio and … oldest sister Pierina was born in 1939 and she was learning how to become a seamstress. My brother Joe was born in 1943 and he was learning …
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… del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go to Naples where the ship Queen … All we had was the clothes we packed, a few knickknacks from the old house, a borrowed $10 in my father pocket and lots of hope. My uncle … cooked meal using as many Italian ingredients as she could, which were easy to find at the local supermarket. Still the days were long and …
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… Inge Nielsen Inge came to Canada with her sister Birthe Marie and mother Ellen Margrethe Nielsen. … His sister was already living in the New York area, however the USA had a restrictive quota on immigration so he decided to emigrate to … the train to Woodstock as a united family. Life in Canada was not easy for immigrants without money in those days. My father went looking …
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… del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go to Naples where the ship Queen … All we had was the clothes we packed, a few knickknacks from the old house, a borrowed 10$ in my father pocket and lots of hope. My uncle … cooked meal using as many Italian ingredients as she could, which were easy to find at the local supermarket. Still the days were long and …
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… for the other islands, and no joy for this one? Well, Lawlor’s has a complex history. It was the quarantine facility for Halifax in the … area (and the consequent prohibition on casual visits) has marginalized it in the public mind? If few people go, does … of much historical work, including an energetic restoration and commemoration project by Parks Canada . I can’t propose a single answer …
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… events and must understand the difference between what they know to be common ethical ground in contemporary society with what constituted … the Chinese Immigration Act in 1947. As a historian, it is quite easy to point out the discriminatory and exclusionary nature of the … Canadians were viewed as racially inferior in the broader Canadian community, which also feared foreigners and their labour. As historians …
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… Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey My sister, Catherine MacKinnon Read , and I left … when we would see it again. At sea, we joined a large convoy of many different kinds of ships. To me, this was the beginning of a real … German U-boats were sinking all shipping, including children ships. One in our convoy was torpedoed, and all lives lost, as no one stops to …