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… As a former British child war evacuee who came to Canada under the auspices of the Children's Overseas Reception Board … Kent. Our group traveled by train from Eltham to Liverpool, staying one night in a school gymnasium, where conditions were decidedly … seemed to be falling as close as the next street. Late the following day, along with 351 other CORB evacuees, we embarked in the Orient …
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… Whenever I have talked about this trip later on, I have always mentioned how well this journey was organized. It … November 1945 I could hardly wait to find out when I would travel to Canada. I don't remember being very apprehensive, it never occurred to … to be told that it still would be quite some time before my turn would come. So when I received a telegram from that Canadian Wives Bureau on …
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… founding of a religious community, the Sisters of Mission Service, a pioneer effort to update religious life. When my role as co-founder … tracks loom large. We walked the rail to school; we told the time of day by the passenger trains; it was a game to guess the number of box … table at Dad's right hand. To Mom the plight of those unemployed could one day be the plight of any of her six sons. Mom had come to Canada …
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… ship sounded a foghorn and all went out on deck to see Canada. Everyone was so excited, they forgot I was alone and sleeping. With all the … and they would pick us up at the station. We stayed there for a few days, then a man of the Immigration came to pick us up and took us up … arrived at its berth in Halifax harbour early in the afternoon on Saturday, May 16. Upon disembarking, all of the passengers were screened by …
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… MY IMMIGRATION STORY April 27, 1959 was the day I arrived in Halifax, Canada along with my mother Maria and sister … economic constraints. We left Venice on a clear, sunny and warm spring day. My godmother, one of my mother’s best friends, accompanied us to the departure pier. …
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… The Trans-Atlantic Passage of Rosa (Mulé) Nobile and Daughters Maria & Carmela When my sister Carmela and I found out that we had been accepted to immigrate to Canada, we climbed on the bed and jumped and jumped for joy. In my 10 and her 8-year-old … on the Leonardo da Vinci. My mother packed three or four large trunks, one of which had to be custom-made for a treadle Singer sewing machine. …
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… CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH REGIMENT OF CANADA 23/09/1939 - Militia 20/06/1940 - … Major Frank Southby, O.C.”D” Company was seriously wounded, since died of wounds. An 8 NBH tank picked him up through an escape hatch on … of all those fellows who waited and fought for this one day, and died in ITALY and HOLLAND that the rest of us might carry on to this …
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… often bragged about being a ‘bit’ of a daredevil in the skies. On one occasion he flew over the Church of his home village of Pozlovice … Communist ideology permeated and dominated every aspect of everyone’s life. Those who did not comply with communism were interrogated, … to Soviet concentration camps. Alois remembered seeing people one day, then never seeing them again. After several weeks he had a …
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… March 29, 1953 were all of these things and more. Fifty years to the day of their arrival at Pier 21 the three surviving members of that … was a young structural engineer that had been sponsored by Avro to come to Canada and work on the Avro Arrow project. When asked about … happy engine fitter and says that having to go into another field was one of the best things that could have happened to him. A friend of …
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… and my two sisters. It was the first time we had something so new. The day we left was a difficult and emotional one. I adored my grandfather and we had a special bond and closeness …