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… Wally. “We were the last passengers to leave the ship as Wally had come down with the German measles and we were put into quarantine,” … wrote. “Wally was put in the sickbay of Pier 21, Dad and the three boys in the men's dormitory and Mom and the two girls in the women's … were no handles on the inside and the windows were barred. At night we washed our underwear in the bathroom sink for the next day because we …
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… cattle at a market and had to stand in long lines to pass different officials. I had a big disagreement with one of them when I asked if I … Ontario. It was good that I did not understand too much English, but I can remember him using the term "S.O.B." directed at me. So I was … coal and water. We were allowed off the train to stretch our legs and buy snacks at a dirty little store that was close by. Before anything …
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… because we’re leaving our home here in Kuopio, Finland, and going far away, to a country called Canada. My name is Kaarina and I’m nine … she doesn't want to go and she just whispered to me that we should have jumped off the train and run back home to our Mummi . I don’t think that’s a …
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… of pursing a better life for themselves and their children. They had become aware of the opening of immigration to Canada, and although other … any wages. With the assistance of a Portuguese/ English dictionary, he voiced his concerns to his employer who was only able to pay him some … a supermarket in the Portuguese community, António would continue to have an affiliation with Swiss Chalet until his death on May 9, 1981. …
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… them for the remainder of the war. While in Ajax, he met his wife to be, Jessie Bernice (Bunny) Wight and they were married August 7, 1943. … living along the coast who were reporting mines and torpedoes being washed ashore and wanting them removed. Fortunately, most of these … like many cities and towns throughout Canada, saw the mayor and officials leading Thanksgiving services in churches, parades, music and …
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… hold, one cavernous room with about fifteen hundred occupants. The beds were double wide and double tiered, each unit slept four people. My sister and I had the bottom bed of one unit with our … As I tried to sleep I became aware of a booming noise that would come at intervals. The ship’s motion became more and more noticeable …
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… "I was just a toddler of about 2 years of age when we landed in Halifax. My parents long ago told me the story that when the ship landed … two years of waiting and writing.” (Diny Willemsen, 1956) “We had a farmer in Tilbury to go to, but he had changed his mind by the time we … a delicacy. We usually had one orange per year- on our birthday. To have an orange on an ordinary, everyday day, was a treat indeed. …
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… to be found..." - Christine Gerth ...Periodically, my father would come back and it was on one of these occasions that I told him that we … spoke Italian, he was not able to ask for anything else. I hungrily bit into the slice that was offered and I got the first shock in this … awful! I was used to something totally different. I remember vividly how I cried and said to my father" I don't want to live in this new …