• Petronella Van Luxemburg Seiferling
    … This is the story of how Petronella Helena Van Luxemburg Seiferling came to … farm near Sedley, Saskatchewan in 1920, enlisted in the army with the South Alberta Regiment in 1939. He was stationed in Holland, and met … in quarantine in Halifax due to illness. Their next step was a four-day train ride to her new home in Saskatchewan – their ride from the …
  • Cristoforo Colombo by Bruno
    … So we just look at each other from behind crying eyes. Nonna is not coming with us … I feel sad … but in two weeks … I’ll see papà again … …
  • William Stoffer-Eilkes Family
    … Our journey to Canada began with a dream of opportunity and space to raise a large … Our furniture was put into a large wooden crates under the watchful eye of immigration officials. The box was required to be full to … had to put on medication. There were storms to endure as well. At one point I was sleeping on the top bunk and woke up soaked in seawater, …
  • Lawlor's Island Results
    … station looked like when it was operating. Just landing on a historic site and wandering around may be fun, but it’s no way to run a railroad … major structures. After we finished the historical research and had a good idea of what the major features of the quarantine facility were, and where they were located on the island, we had to obtain good-quality modern maps and blend the old and new maps so that we …
  • Gertrude, Felix and Hanns Skoutajan
    … Welcomed and Welcoming As I awoke in my upper bunk I immediately noticed … to stand like a sentinel. The buildings and church towers of the city of Halifax and of course the citadel made an impressive background … I had undergone total immersion in the language. I was therefore a good source of stories and information about this group. He plied me …
  • Om Prakash Sharma
    … Bombay (Mumbai), now known as Bollywood, to try my luck. As in any big city, it was a very hectic lifestyle. I met many resourceful people, … my job as a teacher, still yearning for adventure. As William Feather said, "One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an …
  • Middlemore Shillings
    … and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while … During our correspondence I mentioned that a visitor had let me scan what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned this, she wrote, “All …
  • Pieter A. H. F. Lammens
    … living in Iroquois, ON. Eddy was in the Canadian Army and became a good friend of my father at the end of the war. After a couple of weeks … ON. Was hired by Grant MacKay, an ex WWII RAF gunner, who was shot down over Holland and was saved by a Dutch family. Somewhat unreal that two Canadian veterans started to mold my life in Canada. Grant and I became very good friends. I was successful in obtaining …
  • Charles and Emily Haigh
    … Haigh departed from Liverpool, England on March 5, 1912 aboard the RMS Corsican chartered by CP Line Atlantic Journey ID 5255. He was … admiration for my grandfather, whom I never knew. I have always said, "the prairies separate men from boys". How tall he stands in my …
  • Philip, Alice, Sydney, George
    … Haigh departed from Liverpool, England on March 5, 1912 aboard the RMS Corsican chartered by CP Line Atlantic Journey ID 5255. He was … admiration for my grandfather, whom I never knew. I have always said, "the prairies separate men from boys". How tall he stands in my …