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… Scottish Lassie It was during the terrible times of WWII when our parents met. Our dad, Wilfred Raymond Webb, born on Dec 14, 1918 in Bishopton, Quebec, was first stationed in England. It … the woman he would marry. And he did, on June 23, 1944. When the happy day came, our parents had only four days leave to get up to Aberdeen, …
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… sent of to a small country school. Not speaking one work of English, we arrived with lunch pail in hand, children gathering around us , … in this land, and, if the truth be known, the land came to grow in us. Wy binne gelokkich (we are blessed).” (Kenneth Robert Vandenberg, 1953) … Quotes - Life in Canada …
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… that, so this is going to be our new home. But have no idea what’s to come and where are we going. So those things we don’t know. So we—And … of thousands of people who left Laos after the country came under communist control in 1975. Chai and his parents and brothers fled to … two years. In 1980, the family was sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee to immigrate to Drake, Saskatchewan. Members of the Drake …
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… Margaret, Lynn, Hazel and Kevin Shaw arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the Georgic on April 26, 1952; Kevin's first birthday. We sailed from Southampton on April 19, 1952. Our Mom, Margaret,was …
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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 … [4] Before the newcomers disembarked from their ships at Pier 21, railway officials came aboard to hand out name tags listing destination, … 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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… heart - here is the abbreviated version of my story: The outbreak of WWII forever changed my family's happy and peaceful lives in our beloved country Poland. Overnight our dreams were shattered as my father, just 43 years old, was killed in the …
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… Mother and I began our venture to Canada in October, 1953 where we left on board the TSS Olympia on its maiden voyage, covering a route … gymnasium, and movies. So one was kept quite busy was well as the all day brunch. Every day my mother would take the dog out to exercise on a …
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… the refugee camp in Benin, I registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. In the camp, we were living in abject poverty. … that would anger Nigeria. So it took ten years for me to be able to come over to Canada from that camp. I arrived in St. John’s in 2008. …
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… workers from rural areas in search of employment. Population growth accompanied this, with London, already a city of one million in 1800, home to … in Britain, 1861-1971: patterns and hypotheses,’ Population Studies , 45:1 (1991), 57. ↩ The Times , 27 April 1874. ↩ Peter Kirby, ‘A …