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… his family immigrate to Canada. Eva, maiden name Beltsis, 31,and her two children, Georgios (George), 8, and Thomas (Tom), 7, traveled … Vasilissa Friederiki) on May 18th, 1956 from Piraeus, Greece. Eva said that George and Tom caused a lot of trouble. They played with the … was terrified that George and/or Tom would fall into the Mediterranean Sea or Atlantic Ocean, because “they were so wild.” As stated, Eva …
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… was born on March 11, 1918 to Robert and Alice Beazley of Halifax. He was a graduate of Dalhousie and a Ph.D. candidate at the University … Immigrants at Pier 21 Halifax was a delightful revelation. Our father Lauri Joonas Kokkinen,age 33 arrived in Halifax aboard SUFFREN on … the Oulu area of Finland when her older sister Jenny encouraged her to come to work as a domestic in in a family home in Toronto. Lauri and …
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… November 1945 I could hardly wait to find out when I would travel to Canada. I don't remember being very apprehensive, it never occurred to … to be told that it still would be quite some time before my turn would come. So when I received a telegram from that Canadian Wives Bureau on … from him. I don't think my parents were that glad. My mother was very sad and upset. Although we all knew I would leave some time, the time …
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… sadness, apprehension, and yet with happy excitement. I soon met a fellow War Bride and we chummed together for the whole journey until we … of England. One girl, obviously Scottish, kept saying, "I'll never see Bonnie Scotland again!" Each of us had our own thoughts, some sad, some quiet. Later, this all changed when we found where we had to …
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… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
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… Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter. Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
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… Shackles like this reproduction, created by a blacksmith at Port Greville, … because of the racialized trauma that's associated with it, it's not passed down much within families. For the most part, it is a silent … point that community will feel the need to share more and researchers will dig deeper and find more of that hidden history that that …
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… Shackles like this reproduction, created by a blacksmith at Port Greville, … because of the racialized trauma that's associated with it, it's not passed down much within families. For the most part, it is a silent … point that community will feel the need to share more and researchers will dig deeper and find more of that hidden history that that …
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… ten years old, on the morning of January 22,1952, piled into a rented car which would bring us to Rotterdam. There we were to board the ship … the first leg of the trip, driving across the Netherlands, already seemed long. In reality, the Netherlands is a small country and we … finally cleared, we were hurried along, quickly our picture was taken (see enclosed photograph) and walked the gangplank onto what seemed to …
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… to escape the approaching Russian army. The family consisted of my father, Ilgvaris (John), mother, Alexandra (Sasha), grandmother, Lina and … aunt had immigrated to Canada and was living in Red Lake, Ontario and she was able to sponsor us in 1950. My parents had to have jobs waiting … the minute the tug started to tow us out of the harbour, seasickness set in. The men were separated from their families and required to do …