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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: England Ship Name: Ile De France Date of Arrival: 1945 My mother and I were born in Bradford, Manchester, England. My mother was an identical … Dawn Anne Huestis …
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… Our family immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands in March of 1951. We were a family of eight children, two boys and six girls, ranging in … with bunks three high and the men and boys in the hull. During the day, we were placed in a type of day-care, a large playroom from which …
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… in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … to leave home, but my father said, that when I moved out I could never come back. That scared me, so I finished my education and stayed until … Bremerhaven, I met a young Canadian, Wilf, who encouraged me to come to Canada instead of going to Africa. Wilf was sending me big, …
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… Single Men and Women June 6, 1952 – Waterman I well remember the day that I disembarked from the MS Waterman in … separated into a family section and a bachelors’ car up front, where we, that is some fifteen single males would open the leather strapped …
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… is STEVEN (ISTVAN) ERDOS I was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a Jew, I went through the war- years in Hungary, and after the war, when the … where we were settled into a temporary housing development for the few days we had to spend there before embarking. The day finally arrived …
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… Maria Grazia Pagano. My son was seven years old and my daughter was twelve years old. We came to join my husband, Antonio, who had … to join his father, so I had him look after my son and they would chum around the ship together, otherwise I would not let him leave our …
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… us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese troops come up. When I was three years old I moved to Bangkok to get a special … myself and I thought there was a clone of me in the mirror. In the welcome house, I saw all of the toys and food but I didn’t like any of …
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… as he was adopted, and he had no job prospects. In such cases, boys were sent off to the ‘colonies’ to earn a living. At that time, the … down the Mersey River, stopped at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland the next day and arrived in Halifax on April 27, 1929.” [1] Leonard was … aboard the Lancastria were taken to the Agriculture College in Truro, Nova Scotia for several days while our employment was sorted out.” On …
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… Time 0:02:51 Transcript Going for a visit to Iceland I go home, and coming back to Canada I come home. Few years ago my son said “mother make up your mind, where …
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… take a moment and share the reasons I prize questions so highly and why you should too. First, let’s explore the scope of what we talk about here at the Museum. The history of Canadian immigration is a vast and immensely complicated thing. It’s a … Does Anyone Have Any Questions? …