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… in Broughty Ferry, Scotland, on our journey to Southampton, England. We were to sail on the Aquitania to Halifax and travel on to Dundas, … later I was to discover we sailed across on the tail end of a hurricane. One of my first memories in landing in Halifax and leaving the …
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… After thirteen days at sea, we finally arrived in Halifax, Canada; myself, my mother, my grandmother and my younger brother Tony. The day that we arrived was also my 13th birthday and to me 13 is always and remains …
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… lost all our savings that took years to build up. But, we had our own company that we could sell and we had money to leave, lots of people … would. Lot of Icelanders were moving to Norway but we wanted something completely different, and that was Canada. I called my good friend … saying goodbye to our home country. Gimli was our new home and it was comforting to move to a place that they called New Iceland. The people …
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Time 0:02:23 Transcript Choosing a university is hard. I have always lived in London and Western has always been my number one but now that French is an opportunity for me, Ottawa is moving up on the scale. There are so many things to consider when deciding what university to go to and just …
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… things difficult for us, I guess. Yes. Oral History 15.12.09VNT with Van-Nha Tran Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Return to … By Sea or Land: Refugees or Displaced Persons - Van-Nha Tran …
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… was waiting for our four year old son, Francis, and me at the dock. We traveled that evening (after being welcomed at the Pier by the Red Cross and other organizations) as far as Truro by car -- next day up through New Glasgow, Antigonish, and the ferry crossing at … Mary K. Bowes Astephen …
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… It was 2:00 a.m. Our family was rudely awakened by two Russian soldiers armed with rifles and were told to pack a few things, and we … Siberia 2,000 km from home. The conditions were deplorable. If someone died, the soldiers would throw the bodies off the train. I had a … My uncle was in the Soo since after WWI. He made the papers for us to come to Canada. We said our good-byes and sailed to Canada in the hopes …
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Time 0:02:45 Transcript From its creation out of Lake Agassiz to today, Lake Winnipeg has long been generous to those who understood its opportunity. lt has been a supplier of food to my family and other peoples from lceland who settled along its shores. Lake Winnipeg also provided the spark that …
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… General My Hungarian father and German mother and I arrived on what we later referred to as "that floating walnut shell," after a miserable … of the aisle in the train and I recall everyone had to fight their way around the trunk and me. One Canadian soldier, returning home from his tour of duty gave me one of the best gifts up to that point — a package of Pauline’s Chocolate Celenos. I think I was more …
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… Children August 1, 1953 - Waterman We left Holland on July 24, 1953 and arrived in Halifax August 1, 1953 … spent most of the voyage in a bunk seasick and not liking the water anyway, she was not a happy person at all. We were too young to understand …