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… befriended a local man who told him to build a raft and take the river south....there was a section where he would be heading straight for a … to avoid this rock......just hang on! You will go under water but will come out the other side of the rock. This must have taken huge faith and nerve but this …
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… well we have to be in front of all the—the judge and immigration people that they came from Calgary, and authorities here and the mayor of the city. Okay we swear that we are going to become a good citizens and we sing “O Canada” and they give us the …
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… to Canada. At first I thought she was joking. My parents wanted to leave the camp because they wanted us to be out of the danger zone. … my friends. After the many bus rides and plane rides, we arrived at Welcome House. The house was very different from the houses in Thailand. I …
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… The Leegwater suitcase, donated to the Museum shortly before its opening 25 … was an old suitcase with the name Leegwater painted in white. Opposite it, a black and white image of a man holding that very suitcase at … called Canadian Notebook , released in 1952. The film focuses on newcomer families working in four corners of Canada and in four major …
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… 2000 My father enlisted on June 16, 1941 and was discharged on January 26, 1946. He was in the first wave at Juno Beach on D-Day. That is all … say "I know where I was (x) number of years ago." Then he would go and sit by himself in his toolshed. He met my mother, Rose Chudley, while …
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… High School. Lwów during this time was a Polish multicultural city with the well known King Jan Kazimir University and Technical … 40 German prisoners. In 1945 Richard was sent to the Galatone in the south of Italy to train new soldiers, who managed to escape from Poland … He worked later at General Electric, Union Carbide and later for 26 years at de Havilland, Mc Donnell Douglas (later Boeing Canada). He …
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… well-respected blacksmith. My father enlisted in the army on November 26, 1942 in Edmonton, Alberta. Pte. Fisher underwent basic training in … May 24, 1944, the last obstacle to the Lira Valley onto the open city of Rome and many other areas before entering the Netherlands. He …
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… - On The Train “In this special train for immigrants, the passengers sat, ate, and often slept on wooden benches. At regular intervals along … stations where we could buy food, our family ran out of bread and jam. A very kind elderly immigrant couple from Germany gave us some …
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… country to another, from one country to another, you are expecting challenges. You expected the worse and I was prepared for that. But the one … I was prepared that thing will be difficult for me if I in the competition with a Canadian born in a job he may get it first before I …
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… of the retreating German army. As the water rose in the basement, I said to my father this is where we will now die, father and daughter. … to my father, "do not say anything, it’s the German’s, they have come back to kill us!" Both my father and I laid motionless as a … father in almost a whimsical voice said yes, and then turned to me and said, "So is this good with you Helena?" , and I remembered saying back …