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… Haitian boy and girl so I had Haitian siblings and together we went to Canada. Living in Canada was hard - it was like a fairy tale, but I was the strange beast … The Life of a Can-Haitian by Fraser …
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Time 0:04:01 Transcript I, originally, am from the west northern part of Iran, the country mostly known as Persia in the history. Iran is a multinational and diverse country consist of different “nations” like Fars’, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, etc. It is normal to be anywhere having different …
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… when a friend I worked with asked me to go on a “blind date” with a Canadian who was in London, England on leave. He had met with another … who didn’t have a date. I can still hear my friend saying: “Oh, come on Hazel, you’ll only have to see him once. You won’t have to see him again.” Well, here I sit at a computer 66 years later writing about the meeting …
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… GEERT (GEORGE) AND GEESJE (GE) WESTERHUIS -LUNSHOF FAMILY April 2022 On February 23, 1951 Geert and Geesje Lunshof and their 6 children arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax Nova Scotia. They had left Beilen, their village in The Netherlands, … being picked up by a bus that was filled with other immigrants on our way to Rotterdam in order to board the S.S. VOLENDAM. It had been a …
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… Salén, which was to sail for Halifax on the 16th. In the movie theatre we listened to a talk about our voyage, presented by the 2nd Escort … Marriage Swindler) which was 20 years old and really not a very good way to say goodbye to German films. The sound was impossible. This was …
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… 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 … was two and a half and Liviana celebrated her five month birthday when we arrived in Canada. We travelled by train to Venice where we had to …
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… in 1994: ‘I am very honoured to speak to you on this Remembrance Day because, you see, I do remember… In September, when you were starting back at school I was on a very special trip to the … in case the enemy got hold of his letters. He didn’t phone. In those days, no one phoned from England. The Invasion of Normandy took place …
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… Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript …
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… Poland was restricted in terms of having a decent living. Up to this point there were two classes of people; the very rich and very poor. A … a stable, young and growing country, which was enticing immigrants to come to Canada and help to develop. Finally on April 14, 1928, Dad, his … Then dad and others journeyed west, working here and there along the way. Then Dad bought a homestead in Kinlock, Saskatchewan. How did you …
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… boarded a train to join her husband-to-be in Ottawa where they were married within one month of arrival in Canada. Following marriage, … one of the conditions of this sponsorship was that we marry within 30 days of my arrival in Canada. As a young woman I rarely traveled far …