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… are funny, some are sad, and all show the resilience required by newcomers. Here are a few interesting ones: Twice as hard John Vandenburg, just before his departure for Canada. John Vandenberg, Netherlands, arrived 1951. (DI2016.260.1) “I did not like attending school in Montreal and learning two …
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… Dmitro was born on August 19,1891, the son of farmers Wasyl and Yarene Orleski. After completing high school … front and then transferred to the Italian front where he was taken prisoner and remained in a P.O.W. camp in Albania until war end. After the … daughter Pansy and son John. Prospects for a good life were bleak and news from Canada was very encouraging. So they decided to emigrate, …
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… keeping – purportedly to justify his presence to German authorities. So for 2 years, my family lived in train boxcars, following the … were separated – but the truck with the men was attacked by Russian soldiers and all the men – including my father – were killed. I was not … way to the British zone where they were interred in a displaced persons camp in Heidenau. My mother, with her multi-lingual skills, became …
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… the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships in Halifax, to draw some of the guests interested in the event to the Museum, and to … on ice in the Public Gardens. More recently, I think it is fair to say that the city has both surprised and delighted itself with the … the city. (Aside: one of the builders featured in Perfect Landings is Joe Geisler, a German immigrant who arrived in 1927. He received the …
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… Our hopes in that camp were to be resettled to developed countries or for our country to get peace so we could go back. That dream was in my … the UNHCR on the notice board with the name, time, date and location for resettlement interviews. One day I was in my office as a school … for resettlement consideration. I called my wife to give her the good news. I stopped everything and hugged everybody to share my feeling. I …
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… marks the 25th anniversary of the resettlement and repatriation of Kosovar refugees. Approximately 7,000 Kosovar refugees fled the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999. Thousands of Kosovar refugees found a safe haven in Canada through Operation Parasol, … Operation Parasol: Urgent need, swift action …
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… in Italy were poor. There were very few jobs and very little food. News came that 'America' could be the beginning of a new and prosperous life and Nicola thought it was a chance he had to take. He would have to leave behind his parents Luigi … His room wasn't very well ventilated and it became very hot, so at night he would take to sleeping on the deck. He quickly made …
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… Early 1944 I was evacuated with my high school to a mountain side south of Vienna from where we had to flee from the Russian army in … landed in a hotel on top of the ‘Muttersberg’ in Vorarlberg where the news of the end of the war later reached us. Since no mail or phone … continue to share a room with 3 others at the residence for years to come I decided to emigrate. With a friend’s help and connections I …
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… and Nonno blessed the earth with his energy, his enthusiasm, and his joy, until he was called to Heaven to join the love his life, our … Anna, Angela, Mike and Rita and our families have been to have created so many joyful memories and experiences with Dad. Memories that we hope … his life in Italy, leaving his family and friends in February 1963 to come to Canada to seek a better life for his family. Not knowing the …
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… she was still a small baby. The TB testing came out fine as well as news that Mom was two months pregnant. Besides my mother and Dad, there … Harley and Nellie Hetherington, would employ my father on their dairy farm. A lot of people, including us children, were seasick on the Kota … although the potatoes were yellow and tasted different; the raspberry jam tasted oily. With the lack of space, there wasn't much room to run …