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… and exclusion. The British War Office did not want to train Black combat units in case they decided to rise up against British colonial … Records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC)” is being offered on Feb 26 th , 2022, in partnership with LAC. Visit No. 2 Construction Battalion exhibition at the Black Cultural …
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… Are there special rates for not-for-profit and government events? The Museum offers a 10% discount on some rooms to registered not-for-profit and government organizations. Please inquire directly with a …
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… people in the northern parts of the Netherlands skating along the canals. Soccer is also another tremendously popular sport in the … age of 12, depending on the child’s skills and what they want, they can choose from 4 different types of high schools to enter. VBO – … Kerstdag ) – December 25 Tweede Kerstdag ( Tweede Kerstdag )– December 26 Koningsdag or King’s Day marks the birthday of the King …
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… supposed to be at a dance, but I was! Ed was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in … and bulbar polio visited us. Our eldest daughter, Betty, was one sick lass, but she is tough and she survived and off we went to …
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… privately and New Zealand and Australia because these would require a six-week journey by boat. They knew of others who had chosen Canada and … retirement. It even allowed them to return several times to visit the family in Holland who they had left behind so many years ago, …
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… to be at a dance, but I was! Ed (Jack Mills) was with a group that had come over to the dance. He had run out of money to get back, so I … army in 1948 and served until 1968 and with his war service completed 26 years active service. Life was always interesting, living in … Indian Line of ships in 1936. What a shock to an English War Bride to come from a home that was planned and built by my father, to a terrace …
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… for sugar, etc so my grandmother could make the cake. Mother had to visit the vicar at St. Stephen’s to get permission to marry a Baptist - … In June, 1945, he was sent back to Canada to train for battle in the Far East, without Mother because by then she was pregnant with me and … for good luck, which I remember playing with and destroying as a six-year-old.) She couldn't travel with a baby under 6 months, so it …
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… to Montreal in 1952, Uncle Anthony Mandato said to Uncle Giuseppe “come to live in Windsor, so it will be easier for me to visit you”. One year later Giuseppe sent proxy for his wife and … seen for over 35 years and her son Uncle Anthony she hadn’t seen for 26 years with the wife Sarah and children all from Cleveland, Ohio. Of …
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… his 10 days leave, in April 1945, we made arrangements for me to come to Canada. We felt if we waited until after the war, my departure … swells. We were not allowed on one side of the ship in case we were washed overboard. Staff wet the tablecloths and put up the table ledges to prevent dishes and food from sliding off. Many were seasick this day. Actually, some people spent most of the trip in the sick …
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… transporting animals, to Uchta Siberia (Trockoje region). He was very sick. He lived and worked in a labour camp – gulag. Many men, women and … and children died at the Caspian Sea. Richard was still young and sick, but survived. The army stationed in Iraq, Iran and Palestine. …