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… and I and our 11- mouth old daughter arrived in Quebec City, Canada. We decided to leave our homeland of the Netherlands for a better life … Some unscrupulous venders aware of this kept hounding my parents to buy more of their goods and it would not surprise me if one of them, a …
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… My family is originally from Hardenberg in the Netherlands, and we immigrated to Canada in 1953. We left Rotterdam on April 15th of … a woman behind me called to a man standing next to me: "Get that boy away from there" ["Haal die jongen daar weg"], which the woman then …
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… He came on the Waterman. He began writing to Mary VanBysterveldt and went to Holland to marry her. They entered Canada through Pier 21 on … 1956. The ship was the Ryndam. As they tell their story: We went to P. E. I. to work on our sponsor's farm in Clyde River. In August of …
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… was on the 24th of September 1965, the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. … arrived at Pier 21 on the 3rd of October on my parents’ 20th wedding anniversary. All we had was the clothes we packed, a few knickknacks …
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… wife Sophie and daughter Fabiola after a team Canada match vs Wales in Halifax, August 27, 2022. Courtesy of Fabiola Forteza. Santiago … up. Santiago had played in High School in Argentina, where he’d captained his team. The camaraderie was infectious. The ROCQ would be … World Cup ranked #2 in the world! The Rugby World Cup runs August 22-September 27, 2025. Newcomers who join a club instantly find themselves …
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… wife Sophie and daughter Fabiola after a team Canada match vs Wales in Halifax, August 27, 2022. Courtesy of Fabiola Forteza. Santiago … up. Santiago had played in High School in Argentina, where he’d captained his team. The camaraderie was infectious. The ROCQ would be … World Cup ranked #2 in the world! The Rugby World Cup runs August 22-September 27, 2025. Newcomers who join a club instantly find themselves …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Ukraine Ship Name: Andania Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: … and arrived in Halifax on June 4, 1928. From there, they made their way as a family to Rama, Saskatchewan to start their new life. With the money they had, they were able to buy a small farm. As the three sons got older, it became evident that …
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… Our family landed at Pier 21 on the Aquitania in December, 1948. There were four of us, my mother and father, my little sister Tina, age 3 and … keep us girls safe from all the bombing. Half of our house was bombed away at the beginning of the war, luckily we were in the other half and …
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… On December 31, 1958, Zio Mimi took us to Naples where we were to start a new voyage and adventure to our new home somewhere over … train. I remember my mother instructing us as to what groceries to buy. I bought bread and held it so tight that by the time I got to the …
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… (My Husband) Natale Leardi His recollection of his experience on emigrating follows. Leaving family and friends at age 17, he and his mother Assunta Leardi left … do in exchange for her giving him 1,000 Lire ($1.50) a day so he could buy coffee, cigarettes, and whatever else that amount would cover of …