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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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… 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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… Date of Arrival: Thursday, November 11, 1954 Age on Arrival: 16 My dad Stefano Paoli at the tender age of 16 left his small town of Vallelonga (CZ) in Calabria Italy to join my grandfather Vincenzo and my uncle Vito Paoli who had already …
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… her mother, in Ukraine.” Shared here with permission from her son Allan Didur. Photo of Mary Didur. Aw58 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Step 1: For the dough, mix together flour, oil, milk, water … 1 cup boiling water 1 tsp salt Potato-Cheese Perogy Filling 6 large red-skinned potatoes (not baking potatoes), peeled and halved 4 …
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… March 1955 My name is Antonino Masciotra. My sister Giacomina and I arrived at … see small villages with small houses. I recall my mom questioning ‘La casetta in Canada?’ And then she was worried about the heat in …
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… Canadian Volunteer Service Medal Albert Payeur was born in Québec May, 1922 and served as an infantry soldier in Les Fusiliers Mont … Royal. Date of enlistment: January, 1943. Date of discharge from the army: August 27, 1945. He disembarked at Juno Beach two weeks after …
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… Our trip commenced on the afternoon on a pleasant spring day March 2nd,1954. We were … in our lives and was going to be permanent and final. I recall asking my grandfather when we would return Italy. His response was “When Italy …