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… Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been drafted and served five … um but he had seen enough of horrors on both sides that when it was coming time for me to let them know that I was planning to go to Canada … nearby, the grandparents I knew the best. By then my grandfather had died, but my grandmother, she was under the attitude that the president …
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… for a green card in the United States, they applied to come to Canada as refugees. The family qualified for refugee status due to the danger they would face if they returned to El Salvador. Through the … church in Winkler, Manitoba, the family was able to come to Canada in December 1988. Although Grace was 19 when she arrived in Canada, …
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… Alumni Type: Immigrant Country of Origin: Greece Ship Name: S.S. Queen Frederica Port of Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: July 2, … was attending the birth of her granddaughter when the letter arrived. She looked at the caring midwife who was delivering the baby and …
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… came to Canada in the wake of the Vietnam War and the victory of communist North Vietnam in 1975. Those escaping Vietnam became known as … government had seized power in 1975, led by the dictator Pol Pot, and committed genocide against its own people . Those targeted included … country per capita in history . When the civil war ended and the communist organization Pathēt Lao emerged victorious, 300,000 fled …
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… it was her 13th crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Fiona had her first birthday the day we sailed. We arrived in Halifax March 19th. I remember the … buried in the snow. Our destination was St.Catharines, ON, and to this day, we have stayed in St.Catharines. In the year 2000, my daughter …
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… hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to travel to Canada on the Vulcania on April 1, 1955 departing from the Port of … M/n Saturnia. I guess I must have gotten better as we boarded the next day to a journey which would take us 12 days to arrive in Halifax. The Vescio family of 6 plus the remaining …
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… My husband Cpl. James Reid Paton arrived two days ahead of me on the Ile de France, a troop ship. I sailed from Liverpool. The day after I got on the train to go to the ship the railroad went on strike in Scotland. They took us to military barracks for about three …
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Time 0:04:01 Transcript I, originally, am from the west northern part of Iran, the country mostly known as Persia in the history. Iran is a multinational and diverse country consist of different “nations” like Fars’, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, etc. It is normal to be anywhere having different …
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… Don Whitfield (Marie’s husband) on the occasion of Marie’s 80th birthday: “I remember the first time we met in the summer of 1943. It was at … regimental dance in the same town. I knew as soon as I saw her that she was going to be the one for me. It so happens the farm that Marie …