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  • Tino Masecchia
    … 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. …
  • Unforgettable by Hewan
    … with me; I can’t get it package and get it shipped to me. Canada has become from there to permanently here. After living for four years here; … when I was in elementary school when we had some one that’s foreign come, we would always follow them around and ask them all these …
  • Dorothy Schofield-McIlveen
    … 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 …
  • The Masecchia Family
    … 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. …
  • Alois Wilhelm Escher
    … An Exciting Adventure in a New Land This is the story of a stubborn, … of Aloys (Anglicized as Alois) Wilhelm Escher, born March 13, 1906 #26 Kampstrasse, Gladbeck, Westfallen, Germany. That particular house … his meager salary, to buy gum and cigarettes for the prisoners in a WWI - POW camp he passed each day when mined at the collier. Al told …
  • Fishing Lake Winnipeg Longterm by Harvey
    … but when the curling match was over, I was happy to see that dad had come home. He figured that running back was a little much. In open … came. Wave after wave is going over the side. Finally, a fisherman comes to try to give us a hand. He is able to latch on, and Ron was … my temperature through the rectum until about 11 oclock, the nurse comes in and says I'll take the temperature the regular way. And I …
  • My Immigration Road by Echo
    … then she got married. She missed us and we missed her. She said, ‘Mom, come, live with me! I applied for family reunion’. So my husband and I … to do something to cheer myself up. I enrolled an English Class in the community center near to us. I became a student when I was 65 years … something for the society. I like to be a volunteer to pay back to the community. Every spring, we plant trees. In 2013, we knitted many …
  • D.F. van Laren
    … Single Men and Women October 28, 1953 – Groote Beer Tuesday Oct 20th departure day finally arrived. My fiancée had the use of … The final goodbyes had to be said in the departure hall just before I went through customs and check in. Dad thought that it would be a final farewell and was a bit down. I …
  • Annelies Schaerer Munzker
    … Why and how I came to Canada I was born 1931 the second of five children into a very well off family in Vienna / Austria. After a care free wonderful …
  • Frits and Trijn Lopers
    … Story of Trijn Steenbergen Lopers Frits Lopers and Trijn Steenbergen were born and grew up in Koekange, a small town not far from Meppel in … two girls. Opa and Oma Lopers and Oma and Opa Steenbergen were able to come along on the bus to Rotterdam to send us off. When we got to the …

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