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… Life in Canada Time 0:00:47 Transcript Otherwise I think everything was at least as good in Canada. For me I was almost like a non-immigrant in many respects. As a child I visited Canada so I knew it was right across the border. Even when my grandmother …
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… First Day in Canada Time 0:02:30 Transcript … the first one was—it was so … say uh. But it was remarkable because it start my life right so that day, so it was—I was—it was so special and I remember, and I remember even the days after uh—that when I was going to the school to my classes that …
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… 21 on May 16. From here on Kees will write his own story. In those day, when someone emigrated to a faraway country, you never knew if you … When the case was being loaded, on the street in front of the front door, the whole street came to watch. We took the dining room table, 6 …
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… of the first to open the Number 6 Operational Training Unit (RCAF) in Comox, BC in 1943. Bev was discharged on August 31, 1945. He was a … Legion, Kings County. He married his sweetheart Mary Rosalie Jordan on October 4, 1947 and had four children. Garth, (married Shirley … Agriculture Entomological Laboratory most of his working life. He died at age 96 on June 16, 2018 in the Camp Hill Memorial Hospital, …
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… while the wind and snow was whirling around our house near the Zuiderzee. The war came, we went to school and then occupation. Then the … to book passage. I went alone first so that my wife and child could come later after I was established. In Rotterdam (now one of the … on the North Atlantic. That prevented many people to come to the table due to seasickness, which does not bother me since I sailed in yachts …
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… track of them when we got to Montreal on the morning of May 3, a Saturday. My brother, whose financial situation had not made it possible to … CPR and Colonist Class. The bench seats had hardwood frames with well-worn upholstery in the center. At night, two of these benches on … of newspapers dancing in the air like whirling dervishes. Not much to do, it seemed and in my low-budget state, it was just as well. Before …
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… Our emotions were mixed; sadness, apprehension, excitement. Each day as we ate our meals first class passengers would stand and stare at … we saw more habitation and I must say I felt a sense of relief. Yet, today I love the wild places. As we disembarked from the train we were … still love the land of my birth and the people there. Canada gave me a chance to grow and widen my experiences and for that I am thankful. …
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… individuals, or 37 percent of the movement, chose to resettle in Canada. [1] The Netherlands experienced a surplus of farmers after the Second World War due to the destruction of its dykes by German forces, unworkable land, … warm enough for a Canadian winter. The Afman fammily spent a boring day in Halifax awaiting their evening departure. They wandered the city …
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… 22, 1951 – Volendam Immigration is not something you get just up and do, you talk about it, think about it and talk about it again, you go … which had 1400 passengers and 500 crewmembers, to go to our new land Canada. The Atlantic Ocean can be pretty rough going in the winter so … reached Halifax February 22, 1951 and went through customs that same day yet, we had to stay on board ship one more night. We walked around …
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… sworn to an oath of secrecy which was not fully lifted for 50 years. Can you imagine in this day and age, something involving so many people being kept a secret at … Museum in our London, ON has a great deal to show. There was quite a Canadian connection since 5000 Canadian Airmen trained, at the request …