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… My husband, John Sherman, left and returned to Pier 21, on the Ile de France, with the RCAF during WWII. Having met him in England, I came over to join him in 1947. After landing, and before getting on the train for … John and Gloria Hanson Sherman …
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… My mother, Dorothy Lacey Blake and I [Phyllis] arrived here at Pier 21 … we boarded a train for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and there we lived with my father for the next six years. Over the years Dorothy, better known as Dot, was able to visit her British family. She went on to have six more children, …
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… Children March 1951 Our family immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands in March of 1951. We were a family of eight children, … age from one month to eleven years. I was eight and the third oldest. My recollection of the event begins just prior to our departure from … in a type of day-care, a large playroom from which we were not free to come and go as someone stood on guard at the door. I believe we talked …
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… Tribute to the Lives of: Madame Mirdza Grikis Dambergs and Nickolajs (Nick) … soon left to begin her own school of dance in Halifax. For 30 years, Mme. Dambergs School of Ballet brought qualified and exceptional … are proud to share her story with Pier 21. Any ongoing contributions may be made to The Pier 21 Society and directed to the Research …
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… Edith Metcalfe Wallace, War Bride June 29, 1922 - Nov 29, 2010 My mother was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire on June 29, 1922, the third child of Esther Barrett and John Metcalfe. Her older siblings were Edward (Ted), born 1914, and … Edith Metcalfe Wallace …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 14, 2020) In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened new exhibitions on … Port of Entry, Process and Gatekeepers – A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec during the Great Depression …
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… The Immigration Act of 1910 further enhanced the discretionary powers of government to regulate the … have $200 in their possession before being permitted entry (PC 926, 9 May 1910), while all other immigrants, male and female, were required …
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… My grandfather Salvatore Di Falco was born in Sicily in 1931. His … was pregnant with her second child my grandparents decided to come back to Italy. So my father was born in Castelfiorentino on the 20th of November of the same year. My grandfather likes telling this …
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… foreign exchange for one American dollar; in 1923, 4.2 million million (the number 4.2 followed by 11 zeros) marks traded for one dollar. … Here he met and later (in June of 1942) married Margaret McKady (my mother). They rented rooms in a rooming house near City Hall, …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Germany Ship Name: TSS New York (Greek Line) Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: June 12, 1956 Age on Arrival: 9 My parents, …