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… My Story By Rudolf E. Braune On April 20th, 1951 at the age of 31, I boarded the S.S. Neptunia at Bremerhafen, Germany. I had left behind an ugly war, time spent in a …
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… Canada had many different cultures, we could live freely and a less competitive life without pressure. I decided to go to Canada with my family at last. We came to Canada in winter. It is snowy and cold. I always feel … my own business quickly to earn much money in Canada. Hoping summer is coming soon, and then I can have a fine beginning. Return to Moncton …
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… Transcript In January 1945 my mother’s family, as Germans, fled Poland westward into Germany, trying to stay ahead of the advancing … to family still left behind how good life was saying ‘you should come!’. In 1950 my Mom and her family, having not much to look forward … Mom and her sister worked as domestics and my uncle as a baker and in construction. They managed to pay back all of the money within the …
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… Ontario. Birthe Marie Harrigan First Story I was 3 yrs of age when my mother, sister and I came to Canada to join my father, Johannes Nielsen, who had emigrated to Canada in 1928. … 1950, I married Wallace Charles Harrigan. We have two sons Paul and John and are now retired and living in Mississauga. Second Story: After …
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… of Origin: Italy Port of Entry: Halifax Age on Arrival: 3 years old My Family will be celebrating 50 years in Canada on March 2nd, 2008, immigrating from our southern roots of Rende ( Cosenza) located in the Province of Calabria, Italy. I was only 3 … Michele and Concetta DeBuono Family …
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… Children March 1953 - Groote Beer At the age of nine I emigrated with my family (parents and 2 older brothers) from the Netherlands to PEI, Canada in March of 1953. The decision to immigrate was made by my …
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… by Eleanor Matheson, Heritage Interpreter Time 0:00:47 Transcript: My name is Eleanor Matheson. Right now, I’m a heritage interpreter at … what I’m doing, sort of as a career. I love history and this way I can bring both of my loves, history and art, together. Return to our …
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… stay in a cottage in Bewdley on Rice Lake until we could buy a farm - my Dad's dream. My grandparents, William Alwyn Bradwell and Frances Helen (Clarke) Bradwell , followed us in January of 1954. In May 1954 we moved to a farm near Selwyn in Lakefield/Bridgenorth area …
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… Charles Elliott Brown Service # F67753 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps June 1940 to July 1945 To my Mother, Diane in memory … anxious to get to the front and see action. On the evening of June 5th 1944 he set sail for Normandy, France to take part in the D-Day …
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… Single Men and Women October 28, 1953 – Groote Beer Tuesday Oct 20th departure day finally arrived. My fiancée had the use of her father’s car for the trip to Rotterdam …