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… Le Consulat Honoraire du Liban -In honor of the Lebanese who landed at Pier 21 We are the seeds of the tenacious plants, and it is in … we are given to the wind and are scattered. -G.K.Gibran En l'honneur des Libanais qui ont débarqué au Quai 21 Nous sommes les graines de la plante tenace. Dans notre maturité et notre plénitude de cœur, …
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I left my hometown of Lee on Solent on the 20th of March bound for Canada on the ship Scythia. My family was in Lee on Solent throughout the Second World War, my father being an air gunner navigator in the R A F. I met some wonderful people while crossing the Atlantic, two of which I am very close …
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… in the militia of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (SD&G, Glens). On September 1, 1939, he enrolled in the regular army as a Company Quarter Master Sergeant. He moved with the SD&G in training exercises around various army camps in Canada. By July … landed on Juno Beach with the 9th Infantry Brigade, part of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. He was a member of one of the first …
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… and went by train to Paris. We stayed 1 night in Paris to go the next day to Le Havre, to board the "Samaria II", owned by the Cunard line. … After some rough weather, we arrived in Halifax on Feb. 23, 1949. One day we made hardly any headway: in 24 hours, we traveled just 19 miles. … John had to work for $75.00 a month, and kept a garden. The first birthday present in the family in Canada was a garden hoe, a very useful …
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… Empress of Scotland in April 1944. Landing in Normandy two days after D-Day, Clayton was subsequently assigned to the 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment, …
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… collection allows you to relate to and empathize with the people coming to Canada to start a new life. Setting The Table: Food, Fusions, and Welcoming Communities → Long Journeys: The First Tibetans in Canada → Ugandan …
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… estate. Rosalind, by trade, was a seamstress and also nursed the sick. She married Thomas Charles Roberts of Garn, Caemarvon, Wales who was … 10 and Gomer 5, departed from Liverpool, England aboard the ship S.S. Scythia arriving in Halifax, N.S. on April 14, 1929. Another week …
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… angry and shipped off the whole group. We were expecting my brother to come home on scheduled leave when we received a letter from him from England, where they had been sent without furlough or any chance to say good-bye to their families. From England he was sent to … 1944 at the Lamone River Crossing. We received word of his death two days before Christmas, the day I received a C Christmas card from him …
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… Jeffery. The crossing was uneventful but we do remember that, as each day elapsed, England seemed farther and farther away! Our arrival in Halifax was a typical March day: cold and wet so we were not too inspired. We vividly remember the … could see no future for our family. When I left the U.K. at the age of 26 I had the dubious distinction of never having paid any income tax, …
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Robert Hutchings and David Tinker playing shuffleboard en route to Canada, 1953. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (DI2013.1143.2). Robert Hutchings in Southampton with the Tinker Brothers, c. 1950. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 …