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  • Barbara and Philip Eyles
    Barbara Eyles was a warbride marrying Phil Eyles. She arrived in Canada in 1946. Barbara's luggage ticket for her train trip to Liverpool before coming to …
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  • Ethel Lucas McLellan
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  • Janos and Erzsebet Fajta and Family
    My parents and my brother (age 4) and I (age 6) arrived at Pier 21 after a 9 day voyage on the Dutch ship the "Johan van Oldenbarneveldt" out of Rotterdam. The majority of the passengers were, as we were, refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on our way to a new life in Canada. We had been …
  • Angelo and Carmela
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  • Ole Didrik Falkeisen
    The trip from Rotterdam took seven days and I arrived in Halifax full of hope and the expectation of travelling to Alberta to meet my sponsor family and begin a new life in Canada. Holland was war-torn and held no future for a young man at that time. At Pier 21, I was met by Immigration Officials …
  • Giovanni Falvo
    I came to Canada in June 1962 to join my two brothers Gabriele and Vittorio who came to Canada in 1955 and 1958. I came from Italy, from the town of Decollatura - the Catanzaro region of Calabria. I boarded the ship Saturnia in Naples. I was 23 years old at the time and this was the first time I …
  • Cesare e Maria Stirpe e Famiglia
    Cesare e Maria Stirpe e Famiglia …
  • Mario e Vincenza
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