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… April 1955 Our trip was never without excitement; we left our hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to … departing from the Port of Naples. Well, our excitement started right away as I was sick and no matter how much my dad tried to bribe the …
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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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… 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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… Mother and I began our venture to Canada in October, 1953 where we left on board the TSS Olympia on its maiden voyage, covering a route … gymnasium, and movies. So one was kept quite busy was well as the all day brunch. Every day my mother would take the dog out to exercise on a …
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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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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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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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… 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 …