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  • A Necklace Crafted with Love from the Wreckage of War
    … Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …
  • A Necklace Crafted with Love from the Wreckage of War
    … Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … Englehart (nee Lewis) by her husband Frank Englehart, a Canadian soldier serving overseas during the Second World War. After a German plane … into when there was an air raid. Falling in love with a Canadian soldier In March of 1944, she was set up on a blind date. Her friend Eve's …
  • Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal
    … Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal Consulat général de Suisse à Montréal Schweizerisches Generalkonsulat in Montreal Swiss … of harmonious relations between Switzerland and Canada and laid the foundation for a lasting bond marked by friendship and trust between our … maritimen Standort in Halifax aus traten Schweizer Bürger ihre Reise an. Ihr Engagement trug zur Entwicklung harmonischer Beziehungen …
  • The Forgotten Immigrants: The Journey of the New England Planters to Nova Scotia, 1759-1768
    … The migration of the New England Planters was the first significant migration to the Atlantic colonies in British North America. In … of Nova Scotia, and in the Upper St. John River Valley of present-day New Brunswick, between 1759 and 1768. They left a legacy that can … of Lawrence’s Proclamations, every head of family was entitled to one hundred acres of wild land and another fifty acres for each member …
  • Private Wilfred Raymond Webb
    … 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 was at the time of the Blitz when Hitler bombed … 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, …
  • Pte E. Elizabeth Knowles Webb
    … 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 was at the time of the Blitz when Hitler bombed … 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, …
  • Janet Thomson Boyle, daughter Beth
    … Boyle family in Canada and the Thomsons urged the young couple to postpone their marriage until the war was over, but eventually Grandpa … they were told to stand by for news of their evacuation to Canada at any time.  But not before Beth was christened at St. David’s on July 2 (the Sunday nearest Canada’s Dominion Day) wearing a robe made by one of Jan’s friends, cut from her own …
  • Kurt and Rolf Maurer
    … My brother, Rolf, and I left from Antwerp on April 20, 1952 in the SS Leerdam, 8,854 GRT, her last port of call … that it was the last voyage for this ship. Some joked and said the one before was probably its last completed voyage. The passage was $125 … to be paid in US Dollars, the possession of which was illegal in Germany at the time and it could only be gotten on the Black Market. I had …
  • Giuseppe Barbieri e Maria Cugliari
    … childhood sweethearts in Italy at a time when women and men were chaperoned, unmarried women were never left alone with a man, admiration of … With rare, vivid blue eyes and a beautiful demeanor, Maria had many suitors who expressed their interest to marry to her parents, but … and Giuseppe described their time in Torino with a smile. To this day, Torino remains one of Maria’s happiest memories. They were at the …
  • Do Everything in Love 1 Corinthians 16:14 by Fred
    … and I sang together with brothers and nephews. In Uganda, we were competing with many musicians, and because we were not from there, and … it was all not easy. My hope was gone. I feared I was going to die, away from my family. Our music mission there wasn’t fulfilled but … of immigrants. I visited people who were left alone by their family to die at hospitals. In my career of music production, I decided to help …

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