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… (Carla). Their sons, Gary, Hubert and Hank, were aged four, three and one, respectively. A year later their youngest son Jack was born. After … reading an advertisement describing Canada as the land of milk and honey, felt that the best thing to do was to go overseas. The voyage … the Atlantic on the Zuiderkruis was for the most part not a pleasant one. They encountered massive storms, where the waves were large enough …
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… Arrival: April 1946 I left my home with my 14-month-old baby Shirley Ann. We were mustered in an old house in London, sleeping on iron … in trains. We waited at dockside until almost night. The crew had gone on strike - "More pay or more help." We slept in bunks; my daughter … Photo below shows Irene and her husband Reginald on their wedding day, March 20, 1944 Reginald and his wife Irene on their wedding day, …
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… in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 … to leave home, but my father said, that when I moved out I could never come back. That scared me, so I finished my education and stayed until … Bremerhaven, I met a young Canadian, Wilf, who encouraged me to come to Canada instead of going to Africa. Wilf was sending me big, …
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… 12th 1957, with my husband Dick, our two year old son Leslie, and our one year old daughter Fiona. While waiting for the late evening train … 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 … Toronto. The train should have had three dinning cars but it only had one. It was so crowded that we could not get near it, so when the train …
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… As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a …
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… by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Aerial view of Ocean Terminals c. 1940. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 … The Pier Goes To War: Halifax’s Pier 21 and the Second World War …
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… uh, yes , there’s a justice process, influenced by the international community, but he’s already dead. I’ve known many people, colleagues, … a little thinker in a big country of thinkers, and together, when we combine our efforts, I’m convinced we have or will have a world of … due to his ethnic background. This discrimination encouraged him to become an advocate for peace and human rights. Fredrick earned a master’s …
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… to join her husband-to-be in Ottawa where they were married within one month of arrival in Canada. Following marriage, Cornelia and … one of the conditions of this sponsorship was that we marry within 30 days of my arrival in Canada. As a young woman I rarely traveled far … seeing oranges and being amazed at their low price- we did not have many oranges back home, especially during the war years, and the oranges …
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… Chinatown. What were these dishes, she wondered. Why were they so common in Canadian Chinese restaurants, and what was their origin? … were created by people who were not necessarily cooks, using the ingredients available to them and trying to cater to a North American palate. Chinese men, who had come to North America initially for the Gold Rush and later as …
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… Chinatown. What were these dishes, she wondered. Why were they so common in Canadian Chinese restaurants, and what was their origin? … were created by people who were not necessarily cooks, using the ingredients available to them and trying to cater to a North American palate. Chinese men, who had come to North America initially for the Gold Rush and later as …