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… Beer (Ursa Major) passed by on the way to Rotterdam. I didn’t see any sun in the morning and in the afternoon it became foggy. I can still not get over the fact that I missed the family on shore in … to Toronto yet but we will get them in Halifax. What do I do all day? Sitting, walking, reading, standing, hanging around, being bored. …
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… It may not come as a surprise for many that the head of the National Arts Centre … music were less than ideal, it helped steer him down a path to become one of this country’s best known champion of the arts. In 1947, with their sons Peter and Fred in tow, Anna-Maria and Bob Herrndorf left the port of Rotterdam and a …
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… who volunteered for service in the war against Germany during the second World War. My Grandfather, Charles Elliott Brown service number … of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day invasion. Because of problems with their landing craft, he wasn't able land on the beach until the following day, June 7th, this may have been bad luck or divine intervention, I …
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… to Canada on the ship - Vulcania. We docked in Halifax on an overcast day on December 29, 1952. This account is the story of Peppino, a nine-year-old boy emigrating to Canada from the town of Agnone, in the Molise region of Italy. He was travelling to Canada with … action was more turbulent fewer people attended the dining room until one day the attendance diminished to the point that Peppino found …
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… 19, 1913 in England. He was adopted by Maud Florence and David Livingstone Palmer and was named after Leonard Hodgkinson, Senior 4 th Engineer … down the Mersey River, stopped at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland the next day and arrived in Halifax on April 27, 1929.” [1] Leonard was … On May 2, 1929, they were put on a train heading north and, one by one, they got off at their designated station. Leonard’s station was …
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… of ten. I was fifteen years old when I immigrated with my parents, one brother and four sisters to Canada in 1953. Three brothers and a … of Rotterdam. We boarded the SS Waterman, and departed about 4pm that day. The journey was rather pleasant. We experienced only one storm in …
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… Transcript Screen Text SETTING THE TABLE: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities Screen text with audio I was born in the … is lomo saltado, or stir-fried beef. It is a fusion between local ingredients, like the potato, and the method of sautéing beef first used by … places of origin, re-creating them in Canada as they added new ingredients to the mix—as well as new neighbours, new families, and new …
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… we were served turkey, vegetables, sweet and ice cream. The next day we had soup, Pork and stuffing, apple sauce, a sweet and ice cream … would have liked more but after paying 40 pounds each boat fare and 26 pounds each train fare, we had very little money to spare for … deck almost every day with Keith toddling between us. We had a miss one day of promenading because of a storm when they had to batten down …
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… MANCINI, Antonio (1923-1999) (My Dad) As there was no work in Italy at the time, in … purchased and another daughter Cesarina was born same year. To this day, his 95-year old wife Lina still lives in this same home. He lived … who would be living with them in Canada, and who coincidently would one day marry Luigia and start their own family in this new land. On …
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… on June 12, 1955 on the Queen Frederica. I followed my father, who had come to Canada in 1952 because of the poor economic conditions at home. The trip for me was very dramatic. The day that I boarded the ship on June 4, 1955, was a very sad one. My mother and one of my aunts accompanied me and my older sister, …