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  • N. Peerboom
    … Single Men and Women June 6, 1952 – Waterman I well remember the day that I disembarked from the MS Waterman in Halifax NS on June 6, … sitting on these coach type wooden slatted benches for the six-day journey; and upon disembarking from the train you could recognize … on the seats and backs of their clothes. In fact, even after a few days I could still feel the slat imprints on my body. I have often …
  • An Unexpected Treasure
    … Just the other day, to my surprise, I learned that I have been wearing a treasure … never told me that”, I replied. “I would have never thought that one day, my Canadian daughter would be coming over to my house to help me …
  • Pietro Luciano Bordin
    … fee we paid to cross the Atlantic Ocean. I knew to buy food for the 2-day train ride from Halifax to Niagara Falls, Ontario (where my …
  • My Bright Future in Canada by Saysayeh
    … the rock and play tricks off the rock. Then we pack up our stuff to come to Canada. I was 4 or 5 years old. The thing I love about Canada …
  • My Dream by Yudah
    … also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I … I went back to Thailand to help my people. In my dream I don’t want to come back in Canada because all the kids in the camp want me to stay there forever but my family want me to come back in Canada. At that moment I asked my brother to make a song …
  • Gerarda and Peter Flinsenberg
    … below deck. Our mother suffered seasickness for the entire ten-day trip. The Zuiderkruis docked at Pier 21 on February 12, 1952. I was … family met us at the station. Our father started work the very next day for the farmer, earning seventy dollars a month. So, with only …
  • Irene Coates and daughter Shirley
    … Photo below shows Irene and her husband Reginald on their wedding day, March 20, 1944 Reginald and his wife Irene on their wedding day, March 20, 1944 Irene with her daughter Shirley Ann …
  • Ineke Felderhof-Graham
    … children a new future in Canada. It was also my father's dream to one day own a farm, as he was a man who was close to the land. In fact, … and integrated quickly into the Canadian way of living. Eventually our day of arrival at Pier 21 was dismal gray and uninspiring, we soon …
  • Stories
    General Stories Monica Forberger Stephen Csibor Family Stories Before 1956 Andy Alfoldy Anna Spaunberg Irene Gadja Kucha Family Tajti Family Family Stories 1956 Elizabet Fajta Erzsebet Guti Eva Kende nee Varadi Janos Maté Lazslo Galambos S.I. Sipkoi De Kellermann Yolan Bencsik Single Men and Women …
  • Elise Marini
    … I never had since I was living in an orphanage in Denmark. Until one day an uncle came along and took me to get ready for this long Atlantic … and originates from Maniago Udine the northern part of Italy. To this day I have family in Rome and in Copenhagen, but somehow the Italian in … up immediately. I believe we left Copenhagen in and around November 26, 1951 and arrived at Halifax Nova Scotia on December 5, 1951. Just …

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