• The First Step is Always the Hardest by Kelvin
    … As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a …
  • Mels Fr. van der Laan
    … der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years my senior, three sisters, Adre, Mien and Gre, then yours … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I …
  • L/Cpl William Heinz
    … with their four children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled … siblings who were of age voluntarily joined up and all shipped out - via Pier 21 - to serve in the UK or Europe. The three brothers served … handiwork was then bundled up and sent to Medicine Hat and transported via train across the country to be loaded onto ships – at Pier 21 – and …
  • Sgt. Elroy Heinz
    … with their four children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled … siblings who were of age voluntarily joined up and all shipped out - via Pier 21 - to serve in the UK or Europe. The three brothers served … handiwork was then bundled up and sent to Medicine Hat and transported via train across the country to be loaded onto ships – at Pier 21 – and …
  • Emmanuel and Rose Flaig
    … with their four children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled … siblings who were of age voluntarily joined up and all shipped out - via Pier 21 - to serve in the UK or Europe. The three brothers served … handiwork was then bundled up and sent to Medicine Hat and transported via train across the country to be loaded onto ships – at Pier 21 – and …
  • Family Reaction to Leaving - Bruce Bolin
    … Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been drafted and served five … um but he had seen enough of horrors on both sides that when it was coming time for me to let them know that I was planning to go to Canada … nearby, the grandparents I knew the best. By then my grandfather had died, but my grandmother, she was under the attitude that the president …
  • Mirdza Grikis Dambergs
    … Debbie and Shirley. Madame Dambergs, a Prima Ballerina with the Lativian National Opera, had a long record of achievement. She studied … and to show appreciation for the impact she had on all of our lives as we studied and learned, we, her students are proud to share her story with Pier 21. Any ongoing …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel …
  • A Cuban maestro’s cunning escape to freedom, told in five movements
    … Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student … Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the island, former student of Dolores Fidel …
  • How Whales Helped Me Find a New Home by Jeannine
    … He loved drifting there until everybody leaned over the rails, only to come up just then and blow his fishy breath into everybody’s faces. One … is a little piece of land to grow things and to have a couple of ponies next to my house by the sea. Return to St. John's …