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… cruise liner built to carry 1800 passengers. For this voyage, however, she carried some 6000 troops! It was so crowded I never did find my … 1945, I returned to Canada on the hospital ship Letitia. I was 26 at the time. This was a memorable trip in several respects. The ship … outriggers carrying searchlights beamed on the red crosses on each side. We found this a little scary for, although the war was over, we …
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… By 1924 my father had died of tuberculosis leaving only my mother, Leah Bogen Brill, and me in Russia. The only family we had left in … in August 1924 and I was left behind not knowing when I would ever see her again. It was a year later when a cousin in Montreal had been … when I was reunited with my mother in 1930. We lived on the Lower East Side in New York. Shortly after arriving in New York I married Irving …
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… in Windsor, Ontario Died: September 1, 2004 in Walkerton, Ontario at the age of 85 Regiment # A58235 First Canadian Division, RCASC (Royal … France, Belgium, Holland and Germany Demobilization: January 22, 1946 (26 years, 7 months) In May of 1942 Private Kelly embarked from Pier 21 …
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… Why in the world would any young woman of 22 join the army, especially in the first years of World War II? I did! I'm not sure why; … time friend of mine had joined and suggested that it was a great life. She told me there were many interesting people, jobs, men. Quite a … jeeps (one of which I drove up and then down the steps at the Old City Hall in Toronto during a Victory Loan gathering of thousands of …
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… du dévouement des religieuses, Sisters of Service, qui accueillirent les immigrants dès leur débarquement ici au Pier 21, Halifax, Nova …
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Toivo Edward and F.L. Pat Frantsi …
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… for me. I joined up, in five months I was in England and I was there for four years and I drove over one hundred and forty thousand … taken over Germany and when you first looked at it you couldn't see anything but when you spent half and hour or so looking at it different things would come such as convoys, the train stations and so on. You would mark that …
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… Beverley (Bev) Henry Patterson was born November 9, 1921 in Annapolis Valley. He was the youngest of three sons born to John Wilford and Lillian Rachel/Rae … LAC Beverley Henry Patterson …
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… 1950. His family decided, in 1959, to immigrate to Canada and join other relatives here. They left Cassino to go to Naples, June 18, 1959. They sailed … Genoa, Italy then sailed on to Halifax arriving June 29, 1959. Adolph said he first learnt of the trip when he went into his mother’s bedroom …
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The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship 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 St. …