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… Canada would have lost Margarita Bruehler nee Sosnowsky to Paraguay if her brother hadn’t come down with the chickenpox. Margarita’s early childhood memories are … unimagined riches: canned food, clothing, coffee, even chocolate. Via the Red Cross my mother was able to locate an aunt living in … How a Chicken Pox Quarantine Brought one Family to Canada …
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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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… in order to go north from Beirut, we had to cross about ten checkpoints, by which I mean armed barricades. To cross, to go through each … you know? Sometimes it was, uhm, a pack of cigarettes for the soldier and then he would let me go through. Sometimes I would give an …
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Time 0:03:34 Transcript I was born in Somalia in 1981. By 1991 Somalia had a civil war. We ran to the nearest peaceful country which was Kenya. My parents brought us to a refugee camp in the north east province of Kenya. Our hopes in that camp were to be resettled to developed countries or for our …
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… on the occasion of Marie’s 80th birthday: “I remember the first time we met in the summer of 1943. It was at my regimental dance and Marie … were Marie and I. When she hung up the phone, I thought what the heck, we were close together, why not. This was our first kiss! 1943-44 …
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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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… 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 …
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… my wife and I and our 11- mouth old daughter arrived in Quebec City, Canada. We decided to leave our homeland of the Netherlands for a better life …
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… 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 waiting in a camp in Holland …