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  • Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey
    … which was to be my home for 4 years. We docked briefly at Quebec City, then sailed on to Montreal, where we disembarked. We were served … Hart House. Every day there was some kind of medical exam and lots of shots, and one day when our heads were examined for nits! About 2 weeks …
  • Carmela Citro
    … because he was rejected by Canadian immigration authorities for having poor vision. At the time, only those who met strict health requirements … Italian shoe design. A situation Carmela freely admits she was opposed to. Crying, she begged her brother to let her stay, but her new future was already set in motion. Traveling light, Carmela not only left behind her …
  • Squissato
    … story began in January 1952 when our Dad came to Canada by himself to set things up before the rest of the family followed. He came aboard … the children next door to us was a goalie and he gave us an adult size pair of goalie skates. We stuffed a wool sock in the toes and they fit …
  • Celebrated Author Lawrence Hill Speaks About His Newest Novel
    … Writer Published on 04/01/2022 Lawrence Hill What do turquoise crocodiles and gifted children have to do with the aftershocks of the … insists on being on a first-name basis with royalty. She negotiates uncompromisingly when she’s offered a job. As a young person, alone in a … Celebrated Author Lawrence Hill Speaks About His Newest Novel …
  • Celebrated Author Lawrence Hill Speaks About His Newest Novel
    … Writer Published on 04/01/2022 Lawrence Hill What do turquoise crocodiles and gifted children have to do with the aftershocks of the … insists on being on a first-name basis with royalty. She negotiates uncompromisingly when she’s offered a job. As a young person, alone in a … Celebrated Author Lawrence Hill Speaks About His Newest Novel …
  • Kucha Family
    … Sharon Bonnallie Hungarian Immigrants Minnedosa (Steven) July 23, 1926 Berlin III (Margaret) February 11, 1934 Age: 5 years 8 mos for … Steven F 8 years for Margaret S (left Hungary on her birthday) January 26, 1934 Steven F. Kucha, Jr. (Istvan Kucsa, Jr.) left from his … just love the adventures. They have been to exotic locals like Hawaii, South America, the Caribbean, and Europe, all through the United States …
  • Carmela Citro and Family
    … because he was rejected by Canadian immigration authorities for having poor vision. At the time, only those who met strict health requirements … Italian shoe design. A situation Carmela freely admits she was opposed to. Crying, she begged her brother to let her stay, but her new future was already set in motion. Traveling light, Carmela not only left behind her …
  • Trooper Bernard Ofrady
    … Mother died a few months later and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetry on South Street, a few blocks from Pier 21. Father died and was buried in …
  • Wincenty and Ewa Warelis
    … Wladyslaw was killed in the war. Nothing is known about Stefka who was said to have married at a very young age and died shortly after from a … him her maiden name Kurdziel, which he later changed to Kurdzer. One can only imagine how hard life must have been for her, not knowing if … his family to an area known then as Wolynska, just north east of the city of Lviv, which is presently in the Ukraine. In those days Poland’s …
  • Karpowich Frank Pauline
    … In the spring of 1913, 26-year-old Frank Karpowich bid farewell to his family in Mlyniska, … free land beckoned homesteaders. But homesteading in the jungles of South America was no agrarian dream. Disillusioned, they returned to … would spend most of his working years in the coal mines of Alberta and southeastern BC, while Pauline raised their family and worked a small …

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