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  • Mary and Leonard Vermey
    … Families February 1953 - Groote Beer We were married on February 5, 1953 and on the 20th we went to … lots of it. There where very big rooms with lots of bunk beds for sleeping, woman and children in one room and the man in a other, not very …
  • Robert Sapienza
    … destination was Montreal, where I have lived ever since and still can recall our docking on a hot day in May at Halifax. I was astounded at the small size of the city, … no English and sometime later, through the help of an interpreter we were able to locate my little lost brother. We said our good-byes to …
  • Private Wilfred Howard Wilson
    … "Well, I don't remember too much about the War at all. It was fast and … look at photographs. They didn't have the cameras then as they have today. They just took photographs here and there, everywhere else and you … you spent half and hour or so looking at it different things would come such as convoys, the train stations and so on. You would mark that …
  • Pearl Brill Narzemsky
    … a family of three brothers and one sister. My oldest brother, David, went to New York in 1914, my second brother drowned, the third was … had been located to sponsor my entry. In November 1925, I was on my way to Canada to join Abraham Rudolf's family in Westmount, Quebec. I … my mother I was closer to New York and knew that I would be there one day. I was fortunate in that I could speak Yiddish and could at least …
  • Striving for a Dream by Yafet
    … Time 0:03:12 Transcript I never thought I would say “No” to come to Canada until the day I actually had to leave my country. As a kid I always wanted to come to a western country, where kids had their own bedrooms and where … because we had to flee. We hid in a truck which delivers food to soldiers in the borders and we started our journey. When we got to the …
  • The Barr/Britannia Colony, Part II
    … the east coast and then travelling by train across the country. When we left them, the colonists were just pulling out of the station at Regina, Saskatchewan, as the … trains finally arrived in Saskatoon on April 17, 1903, the colonists were greeted by C.W. Speers, the government’s Colonization Agent, who …
  • The Right Mixture by May
    … In some aspects our cultures seemed very different. Determined to overcome these issues we worked together to create a melded family. Language was the most worrisome. When we received company from Iceland, everyone spoke Icelandic except my husband. My … other with smoked, cured lamb. Not to mention another set of gifts! Coming from a dual cultural family, my children worked hard to find the …
  • LACW Sheila Gunn
    … Half way across we heard it was Victory in Europe Day (May 8th). We were very excited. …
  • Looking for Identity by Keyvan
    … came and in front of all the students told the Bahai’s to stop coming to school from tomorrow. At this moment I felt I lost my … So I didn’t have any choice except start to work hard to establish a comfortable life for my future in Kuwait. which I was succeed to have …  which was place for most of the singers, actors, actress, artists to come & take their photos. That made a comfortable life for me & my …
  • Making Change is Possible by Leonard
    … As an active young person, I wanted always to make different in the community, and seeing people suffering from AIDS, drug abuse, and … Salaam. I used my journalistic skills to share information in schools, communities and universities to address issues are concerning the youth. This project lead me to become a youth activist. I was selected to travel to many countries in …

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