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… girls she has seen in years. When she encouraged me to join the soccer team, my anxiety started building almost instantly. All I could … my mom was not accepting of girls joining teams. My mom’s thought of coming to Canada was to leave the violence in Somalia for a safer place … the chance that my brother’s got to play sports as long as they kept good grades. I had a passion for sports, so I made the decision for …
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… Italy and finally Canada. My father Elio was born on November 26th 1926 in Chieti Scalo in the region of Abruzzo which is in central … the Second World War my grandfather Giovanni became an entrepreneur of soft drinks, which at the time the famous soft drink was ‘gazzasa'. My … Abruzzo as he would deliver crates of the popular soft drink on his 3 wheel bicycle. My father came from a family of 7 siblings where he was …
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… My mother’s name was Ivy Edie Stevenson and she was born on January 26th, 1927 to Charles and Caroline Stevenson. She was 1 of 13 children … Tunbridge Wells, England. She was 12 years old when WWII broke out and lived approximately 25 miles from the city of London. London … “dog fights” that took place. She spoke of the times the sirens would go off and they would have “black outs” where they would have to darken …
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… and Immigration, and Daniel Libeskind, architect, unveil the Wheel of Conscience on January 20, 2011. © SteveKaiserPhotography.ca Commemorating the St. Louis Voyage The Wheel of Conscience is a memorial for 900 Jewish refugees aboard the MS … architect Daniel Libeskind, the kinetic sculpture is a heavy steel wheel with four interlocking steer gears. Each of the gears is …
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… in Weshcziczach, Poland. Jean and Frank were married on August 30, 1927. In 1928 they were blessed with a daughter Janina (Joan). They … continued to farm for another year until after Frank’s father Wincenty had travelled to North America and found that Canada was both accepting and promising a good future for immigrants. They packed up their personal belongings, …
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… Journeys in English and D’innombrables voyages in French. While the season theme is the same for both, each feature distinct stories. Season … their baby, had to physically battle Soviet agents in order to get off a plane and defect in Gander, Newfoundland A refugee of the … Armenian genocide, detained upon arrival in Canada, who went on to become one of Canada’s first naturalized citizens and one of the world’s …
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… reader. His dispatch duties included decoding delivery co-ordinates in order to complete required deliveries. As dispatcher, he was also … coordinating and mapping convoy movements, alternately leading convoys off toward the co-ordinates he had established and then zooming between the lines of vehicles to round …
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… up I simply loved going to school and looked forward to it everyday, while my father's expectation was to help him with farming. At the age … while waiting to be processed by the port authorities, I went to buy some bread and ham in order to make myself a sandwich, the bread was soft, too soft for my …
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… After sailing for 2 weeks they landed in Halifax at Pier 21. They had two other daughters, Wallentina and Olga (Wally-- called Willa-- … to Canada was for a better life (which they had and we children have had). Their reason for emigrating was due to religious persecution in … were chosen -- America, South America and Canada). Canada won out, 3 consecutive times! On the way over here they said that they were …