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Jozef, Stanislawa, Krystyna …
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Maria and Carlo Lupo …
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Luigi and Maria Teti …
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On March of 1949, Hendrik and Iefje Eyk with their three children: Cornell, Willem and Tineke, sailed on the ship Gripsholm from Gothenburg to Halifax as immigrants from Holland. The following are two letters and a postcard describing in detail their departure, crossing the Atlantic, and eventual …
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Joan Isobel Stead …
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Major H.R.S. Tim Ellis …
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Captain Harold Gordon Bowes …
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Joar Opdahl was born on June 4, 1901 in Overhalla, Norway. In 1927, he immigrated to Canada seeking employment. He worked as a farm labourer near Hawarden, Saskatchewan and there he met his future wife, Pearl Pederson. They were married in 1928 and blessed with 9 children, 6 born before the Second …
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Mrs. Nancy Archibald, a War Bride, lives in Victoria BC. In August 2011, she celebrated her 90th birthday as well as the 65th anniversary of her arrival in Canada at Pier 21. She was joined by her family: daughter Margaret and son-in-law, Roger Amoroso, her son Bill Archibald and daughter-in-law, …
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Lieutenant James William Hartley James (Jimmie) William Hartley was born in Ottawa, May 8, 1917. He joined the militia of the Ottawa Machine Gun Corps just prior to his 16th birthday. When his family moved to Cornwall the following year, Jimmie enlisted in the militia of the Stormont, Dundas and …