• Beulah Cynthia Searle
    … I arrived at Pier 21, November 6, 1946 after a ten day Sea Voyage on the Empire Brent. I travelled by train to London, Ontario, with a host of other War Brides on their way across Canada. The Red Cross and my husband, Walter MacDonald … Searle , then in civilian clothes met me at the railway station. We lived in London, until he graduated. We came to Ottawa and I have …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … span by far, the entries in this timeline were created by Dr. Daniel Sims, Associate Professor, First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, working with a … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Museum Unveils a “Super Important Resource”
    … span by far, the entries in this timeline were created by Dr. Daniel Sims, Associate Professor, First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, working with a … rights. Arrivals The arrivals lens is about the history of people coming to these lands , beginning with the temporary settlement of …
  • Quotes - Travelling
    … “Souvenir sailor dolls/puppets were sold in the ship’s store and I wanted one. When I asked for one, … knew where I was and in the event of the ship sinking, no one would come to my rescue, I panicked. Visions of water rushing in through the … only, and a young, newly married woman shares our cabin. Spirits are high and everyone is talking to everyone else finding where everyone is …
  • John Brian Sharples
    … In late April, 1959, I left Liverpool on the RMS Nova Scotia eager to start a new job in Canada. I was a little … because my departure meant that I had to miss the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium and not only was my team in the final (Wolverhampton … footwork but merely slid from side to side as the boat lurched on its way! We spent a day or two in Newfoundland while the freight was …
  • The Henk Beuker Family
    … July 1, 1952. It had rained for days in the Regina area and the roads were covered to a slimy soft muck, in which we got stuck. Having relatives who preceded the family helped somewhat, …
  • Yolan Bencsik
    … Families 1956 We huddled each night around our radios giving us the news from … instincts told me as we hitched hiked that this was definitely not the way to either one of my grandparents’ homes. As we walked we got … itself was not unpleasant. I remember the green grass: it was a sunny day, and it all seemed very easy. The Red Cross was there to aid us as …
  • Ernst Radke
    … brother and his wife came to Canada in 1929 and they encouraged us to come as well. Two more of my father’s brothers also decided to immigrate and …
  • Ellen M. Nielsen, Birthe and Inge
    … three sons, two of whom are married, by her first husband who passed away at age 40 and two married daughters by her second husband Tom … join my father, Johannes Nielsen, who had emigrated to Canada in 1928. We travelled by rail from Halifax through Montreal to Toronto, where my …
  • Private Clarence Melville Wright
    … who received notice to sail to Canada on the Queen Mary in June 1946. We met in Moncton and I introduced her to my family. We had to live with them until we found a place of our own. …