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… On January 6, 1954, my husband Franco and I left our home in San Lorenzo de Arzene with our two little girls during a terrible snowstorm. Fulvia …
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… (Casino), Crotone, Calabria, Italy. Married Maria Rosa Cosentino born May 2, 1916. They were wed on December 24, 1933. She passed away on … and gave them the opportunity for freedom. The year was 1945. First visit to Canada was November 25, 1951 from the port of Halifax. … 1, 1954 from the port of New York. Immigrated to Canada permanently on May 25, 1955 by ship, Saturnia 330, Italian line Napoli-Halifax. He was …
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… World War II. He brought with him his mother Emilija, his wife Mirdza (Mme Dambergs of Halifax ballet fame) and three children. In Halifax he … final place of refuge. In Nova Scotia he found the peaceful life he wished to have in Latvia. He established a new career as a research … he was able to help his ballerina wife (Mirdza Grikis Dambergs of the Mme. Dambergs School of Ballet) establish a long and successful career …
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… Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026 Time: 2:00 pm Location: In-person event at the Museum …
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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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… Dad emigrated to Canada from the little town of Maierato in Calabria Italy. He left Italy on March 10th, 1966 from the Port of Messina, Sicily. He arrived in Toronto, … at the young age of 42, to find a better life for him and his family, (my Mother, sister and me) that joined him in Toronto a few months …
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… Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Conte Biancamano Port of Entry: Halifax Age on Arrival: 13 Travelled with my older sister Maria Left port of Naples on Sept 27 Joined my older … we were joined by sisters Eva and Edda and parents Giovanni and Angelina In 1965, sisters Giuseppina and Ida with their families arrived to …
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… The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Immigration of … immigration agents. There were at least 6,000 Italians in Montreal in May of 1904, many of them unemployed despite being promised immediate … transportation and food supply. [1] The commission, led by Judge John Winchester, conducted an in depth examination of the padrone …
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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 …