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  • Private Norman Peter Kelly
    … France, Belgium, Holland and Germany Demobilization: January 22, 1946 (26 years, 7 months) In May of 1942 Private Kelly embarked from Pier 21 … Bridges, between London and Brighton in England to join his military outfit. He was trained as a Driver/Mechanic and his main service during … Kelly was later shipped out to Palermo, Sicily. On the way to Sicily, off the coast of Africa, the ship's loudspeaker suddenly announced a …
  • Postwar Dutch Immigration through Pier 21
    … Most of these Dutch immigrants chose to resettle on farms in the southern regions of Ontario and Alberta. [2] The success of this … Ontario and Alberta. Interest in other provinces slowly increased as well. By the late 1950s, Dutch immigration was comprised mainly of … , members of the Reformed Church were issued the monthly, Pioneer , while members of the Christian Reformed Church were given the Calvinist …
  • CSM Donald Thomas Whitfield
    … Rank and Name on Wall of Service: CSM Donald Thomas Whitfield Service: Canadian Army, … In 1941 Don enlisted in the Royal Canadian Signal Core in Toronto. While in England, he was remustered into the Lincoln and Welland … in April 1945, Sergeant Whitfield was in command of a platoon which had been reduced to fifty per cent of its normal strength. Despite this …
  • Fokke, Homiena van der Veen Family
    … Ina nearly 2 years of age. Unlike many immigrants my parents decide to come to Canada not from economic need, but because my father wanted to … have been able to fulfill his dream. Ever since the end of the war he had dreamed of emigration - he very much wanted to go to the United States as several of his relatives of an earlier …
  • Immigration Act, 1906
    … policy, with growing numbers of migrants from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. Many Canadians expressed concern that these immigrants … the insane, individuals with impairments of sight, speech and sound, those with contagious diseases, as well as the destitute, impoverished and anyone likely to become a …
  • Oscar Alfeo Dozzi
    … Toronto - there was lots of snow and it was cold! One guy was dropped off the train in the middle of nowhere until someone spoke up and the train reversed to pick him up again. He was speaking Italian and one lady understood. I got off in Toronto even though I was slated for Winnipeg. I travelled …
  • Family Stories with Irish Roots: Remembering the Great Famine
    … to the National Famine Museum, local folklore holds that such offerings were made to invoke good luck. These shoes symbolize the … start with my great-grandfather, James Dunn. James Dunn was born in 1830 in Ballindaggan, County Wexford, Ireland. He immigrated to Ontario, … he could save the money to put himself through medical school. After becoming a doctor, he travelled to England in 1914 for further studies. …
  • A Necklace Crafted with Love from the Wreckage of War
    … Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … and was shipped to the Middle East. He assumed he wouldn't see his son again until after the war, assuming that they both survived. While … two months before it was granted. They were married in July of 1944. Soon after, Marjorie was pregnant with her first child, Michael, and …
  • A Necklace Crafted with Love from the Wreckage of War
    … Canadian soldier Frank Englehart whittled this for his wife Marjorie in 1944 or … and was shipped to the Middle East. He assumed he wouldn't see his son again until after the war, assuming that they both survived. While … two months before it was granted. They were married in July of 1944. Soon after, Marjorie was pregnant with her first child, Michael, and …
  • Royson Ng
    … thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, … want to achieve. For me, when I first came Canada, education was my reason for being here, for my kids, okay. And, looking back, today, I say, … me saying no experience means—that because it’s me. But somebody else will look at it, always, you have Canadian experience.. Biography: …

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