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  • The Journey Continues by Lina
    … is an opportunity for me, Ottawa is moving up on the scale. There are so many things to consider when deciding what university to go to and … always gone through everything together and that’s why this choice is so hard for me now. I can still remember the day when I was 5 years old … city I want to live in, but if I’m capable of leaving my family once again. Return to London …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Ingeborg Dietrich Ruohoniemi
    … 1957 I was born on the 15 of December 1937 in Schwenningen/Neckar in southern Germany, the third child of four girls. During the spring of … Two weeks before we were to leave for Karlsruhe, my girl friend backed out. I however stuck with the plan. Now I had to tell my Mom. At first she was shocked that I would undertake …
  • 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 …
  • The Journey Begins by Ludee
    … and lot of people were poor, and can’t afford foods. Then we moved again. I remember the day I came to Canada. I was very little and … what kind of food is that. The food was awful. When I came to Welcome house. I thought to myself WOW THIS HOUSE IS BIG, but then someone told us it was like an apartment. The welcome house had 3 …
  • Cor Groenewegen
    … 21 on April 22, 1952. At the date of arrival he was 23 years old and had served his country for 2 years as a Dutch Marine. Most of his time … of their journey they found 5 more single young men on board and had a good time hanging around together. After landing at Pier 21 everyone … Mia arrived with her family on the Zuiderkruis at Pier 21 on January 30,1952. She was 17 years old and arrived with her parents, one brother …
  • Fleischer, Henny Karin Kaethe Eugen
    … there under the communist regime. Immediately after the war was over while Germany was in such desperate shape in 1945 that my mother … in Landau in the Pfaltz not far from the French border. But how was I to get across the forbidden and somewhat dangerous border and … possible with Russia, decided to have me returned to East Germany and had me detained in a locked hotel room over night. After forcefully and …
  • Toon and Trees Maas
    … boarded the Groote Beer in Rotterdam for Canada. Their eight days or so was rather eventful, as the newly married couple was required to … the couple was greeted with the news that their Canadian sponsors had withdrew, leaving Toon no work. They were required to spend the night at Pier 21, again in separate quarters and were advised by the Canadian Immigration …

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