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… daughter Fiona. While waiting for the late evening train to Liverpool, we met fellow travellers Margaret and Alfie Mclean. They were a great … 13th crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Fiona had her first birthday the day we sailed. We arrived in Halifax March 19th. I remember the Red …
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… here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the citizenship paper and this—how I will say? I become a real person again when I receive that document. CB: What did … me. Let me free here. That you are here, that you belong to a community and you can do things for the community too. That was one of …
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… My Journey started 7th July 1952 in West Berlin (US Sector). I left Berlin by Bus with approximately 50 to … at Pier 21. It certainly looked different then compared to the present day. Everyone was happy the voyage was over and now reality finally set …
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… to put it mildly, but the only one that really fit was "unique." Everything about her personality, cooking and even her golf game was her … Years In my opinion, a person's birthday was considered a special day, and my mother's was no exception. She was born on July 21, 1925 as … trip to Edmonton, he ultimately settled in Hairy Hill, Alberta. Due to high travel costs, the rest of the family had to emigrate to Canada …
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… Scottish Lassie It was during the terrible times of WWII when our parents met. Our dad, Wilfred Raymond Webb , born on Dec 14, 1918 in Bishopton, Quebec, was first stationed in England. It … the woman he would marry. And he did, on June 23, 1944. When the happy day came, our parents had only four days leave to get up to Aberdeen, …
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… Scottish Lassie It was during the terrible times of WWII when our parents met. Our dad, Wilfred Raymond Webb, born on Dec 14, 1918 in Bishopton, Quebec, was first stationed in England. It … the woman he would marry. And he did, on June 23, 1944. When the happy day came, our parents had only four days leave to get up to Aberdeen, …
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… sent of to a small country school. Not speaking one work of English, we arrived with lunch pail in hand, children gathering around us , … in this land, and, if the truth be known, the land came to grow in us. Wy binne gelokkich (we are blessed).” (Kenneth Robert Vandenberg, 1953) … Quotes - Life in Canada …
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… that, so this is going to be our new home. But have no idea what’s to come and where are we going. So those things we don’t know. So we—And … of thousands of people who left Laos after the country came under communist control in 1975. Chai and his parents and brothers fled to … two years. In 1980, the family was sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee to immigrate to Drake, Saskatchewan. Members of the Drake …
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… Margaret, Lynn, Hazel and Kevin Shaw arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the Georgic on April 26, 1952; Kevin's first birthday. We sailed from Southampton on April 19, 1952. Our Mom, Margaret,was …
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… heart - here is the abbreviated version of my story: The outbreak of WWII forever changed my family's happy and peaceful lives in our beloved country Poland. Overnight our dreams were shattered as my father, just 43 years old, was killed in the …