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… Christmas for my children.” So I start to work and, it wasn’t only cleaning house it was a lot of personal care. I didn’t know, I—I was—I … to immigrate to Canada after talking to Pedro’s brother who had come to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a refugee shortly after the coup. Ruth, …
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… be a “look and read” type of museum. In the Pier 21 exhibition and Canadian Immigration Hall, there are places for people to touch, sit, smell, put stuff together, and take stuff apart. Visitors can pack a suitcase, decorate a suitcase, add a patch to a virtual …
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… on the ship called the Minnedosa and arrived in Halifax July 23, 1926. He was just over five years, 8 mos. old when he arrived in Canada. … (Barbara), and older brother (Paul), on her 8th birthday, January 26, 1934, on the ship called the Berlin 3. They left the port of … just love the adventures. They have been to exotic locals like Hawaii, South America, the Caribbean, and Europe, all through the United States …
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… that, so this is going to be our new home. But have no idea what’s to come and where are we going. So those things we don’t know. So we—And then we spend two days in Edmonton and then we flew to Saskatoon. IN: Right, Right. Sorry, to go back to the flight …
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… (Lower Saxony) from 1945 to 1949 at which time we immigrated to Canada. THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM A BOOK WRITTEN BY EDMUND … industry and better paying jobs. Others started migrating to North or South America. In early 1949 we packed up and took a train to a … were fairly old, had never been painted and needed a lot of repair and a good clean up. There was no electricity and water had to be …
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… to capitalize their name. It started me thinking about the grammar rules we have in English and when people are allowed to ignore them. I … we find ourselves at the edge let us not forget one another in the coming cold i will hold flame while you pray for health and you can …
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… travelling in the difficult weather. As soon as we arrived in Genoa we set sail, making our way eventually to the Atlantic Ocean. I was … we made it to Sudbury. It was a bit of a shock to us because the city was so bare, grey, and cold. The temperature was much colder than … Sunday visit with relatives, one of the men asked how work was. Franco said that once the house they were working on was done, there would be …
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… Becoming a Refugee Time 3:23 Transcript (This video is only available in French; the transcript has been translated from French.) Yes, …
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… Muriel met an 8-year-old named Bud, something special started. The pair, who have now been married for 61 years, recently visited the … at the Red Cross Nursery at Pier 21, at blood donor clinics around the city and at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax. She says a few lasting …
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… to outline some introductory comments about her immigration to this side of the ocean extracted from my book " Pier 21 - 1951 Our Family’s … during the war itself were confined to evacuating out of the city into the farmland, these events were not very significant per se ; … Brigitta explained. "The army stormed in and occupied the whole city, pushing further westward. Steyr remained under Russian control …