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… also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I … I went back to Thailand to help my people. In my dream I don’t want to come back in Canada because all the kids in the camp want me to stay there forever but my family want me to come back in Canada. At that moment I asked my brother to make a song …
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… below deck. Our mother suffered seasickness for the entire ten-day trip. The Zuiderkruis docked at Pier 21 on February 12, 1952. I was … family met us at the station. Our father started work the very next day for the farmer, earning seventy dollars a month. So, with only …
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… bunks; my daughter slept in a cot attached to the bunk with netting so she wouldn't fall. Washing facilities were limited. Food very good - … Photo below shows Irene and her husband Reginald on their wedding day, March 20, 1944 Reginald and his wife Irene on their wedding day, March 20, 1944 Irene with her daughter Shirley Ann …
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… children a new future in Canada. It was also my father's dream to one day own a farm, as he was a man who was close to the land. In fact, … and integrated quickly into the Canadian way of living. Eventually our day of arrival at Pier 21 was dismal gray and uninspiring, we soon …
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General Stories Monica Forberger Stephen Csibor Family Stories Before 1956 Andy Alfoldy Anna Spaunberg Irene Gadja Kucha Family Tajti Family Family Stories 1956 Elizabet Fajta Erzsebet Guti Eva Kende nee Varadi Janos Maté Lazslo Galambos S.I. Sipkoi De Kellermann Yolan Bencsik Single Men and Women …
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… I never had since I was living in an orphanage in Denmark. Until one day an uncle came along and took me to get ready for this long Atlantic … and originates from Maniago Udine the northern part of Italy. To this day I have family in Rome and in Copenhagen, but somehow the Italian in … up immediately. I believe we left Copenhagen in and around November 26, 1951 and arrived at Halifax Nova Scotia on December 5, 1951. Just …
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… as instructor at Witely and Aldershot) Ralston was posted to 1st Canadian Ordinance Beach Detachment at Leicester (tank section). He … Brigade (top secret). 1. back to HQs at Red Hill 2. weekend pass Saturday to Sunday evening 3. hauling stores from Midlands 4. ferrying tanks … of the war zone, air war at night... break out and rush up the coast... Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, and Mertem- move to Holland- Belgium …
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… on April 22, 1957 at 9:15 in the morning. I remember it was Easter Monday; we were all there on deck watching the boat "Olympia" being docked … of itinerary I traced on the Canadian map, all kinds of recollections come back to my mind. The seven days at sea on the Olympia were … but we were hungry and ate them. On April24 it was my twentieth birthday. Looking at the map we were still in Ontario. I did not tell …
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… us. The reason why we came to Canada is not because we just like to come. We came because our life is in danger and sometime the Burmese troops come up. When I was three years old I moved to Bangkok to get a special … myself and I thought there was a clone of me in the mirror. In the welcome house, I saw all of the toys and food but I didn’t like any of …
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… DEVOLD KOPPERNAES I had the good Fortune to meet Johan on his first day in Canada in the spring or early summer of 1951. Johan grew up in … Johan under his control over night. He made Johan an offer; either come home with him for the night or spend the night locked up in a room in the immigration shed. Johan didn't have any problem figuring out that going home with …