• Warrant Officer Jack E. Mills
    … 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 … 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 …
  • Dutch Culture and Traditions
    … 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 …
  • LACW Elsie F. Mills
    … the night we met and wasn’t supposed 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 …
  • FilomenaeSaveriaMandato
    … Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Conte Biancamano … 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 … 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 …
  • van Dongen
    … retirement. It even allowed them to return several times to visit the family in Holland who they had left behind so many years ago, …
  • 1968: Pier 21 and the Prague Spring Refugees
    … Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
  • Edith Metcalfe Wallace
    … 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 - … travel with a baby under 6 months, so it was a year later, around July 26/27 1946 that the three of us reunited in Dad's boyhood home on 217 …
  • Margaret S. Kydd
    … 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 … I enjoyed 58 wonderful years together, before his passing on August 26, 2002. Although I missed my family and friends in England, I …
  • Charles J. Lutton
    … Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
  • The Otto Froese Family
    … day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in Canada. My husband and children totally surprised me by having my … Westfalen, West Germany, located us. Her father Gustaf Andres came to visit. He entered the courtyard where children were playing, and asked … Westfalian Pumpernickel. How delicious that was! They wanted us to come to West Germany, but this was not easy. In 1948, we illegally …