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… My Journey to Canada by Helena Lengacher, April 2016 I was born September 6, 1920, in Waterland-Oudeman situated in … once again gave thanks to the arrival of a son, Arsene Heyneman, my one and only sibling I would ever have. Although I did not necessarily … ensure we would all cooperate, my brother Arsene was taken along with many other young men in the town and sent to a Nazi concentration camps. …
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… October 15, 2020) Introduction: Canadian Customs before and after the Second World War In May 2015, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at … to avoid customs officials. While Canada welcomed immigrants to bring money with them, home governments outlawed their citizens from leaving … Customs and the Seizure of Goods at Pier 21 …
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… Walter Kleinwort, 1929-1965 By Margarete (Kleinwort) Gillies At the age of 23, my father Walter Martin Kleinwort bade farewell to his parents, two brothers and two sisters from their Wedel home, … the long train journey that they were about to embark. If there was one unpleasant memory of their train journey to the west, it was that …
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By Steven Schwinghamer, Historian Terminology The terminology of this paper is difficult in a few ways. It is sometimes hurtful to encounter archaic slurs and stereotypes about race and sexual orientation—and some of those are presented as part of this research. I use “queer” occasionally as …
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… Arrived as: Displaced person Country of origin: Hungary Date of entry: December … I have no memory of the ghost that haunts this house, although it has defined my entire life. I was born on a snowy Saturday in the winter of 1962, in a peaceful country where one is free to have every hope imaginable. But twenty years earlier, in …
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… Port of Entry: Saint John, New Brunswick Date of Arrival: February 26, 1928 Age on Arrival: 24 CHARLES JOSEPH LUTTON/"C" COMPANY THE IRISH … – bright and warm. April 22, 1944 (S. ELIA FIUMERAPIDO / Map. 891266 Scale 1/50,000 Sheet 160 1) The Bn change over was completed by …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Up to the early 1980s, refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination system remained partial to the interests of the Canadian government rather than the claimant. The …
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… Maté Had it not been for Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin my older brother Gabor and I may never have had the opportunity to crunch on Kellogg’s Cornflakes in our childhood. Such gratification would most … friends and few remaining family members, father’s employment. Without any guarantees about the future, they faced the unknown. Up to 150,000 …
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… between public health and medical controls on immigrants in Canada has deep historical roots in Canada, notably in Halifax, which suffered … outstripped overseas medical infrastructure, which led to a renewed emphasis on careful medical examination of immigrants at their point of … in Canada on the Duchess of York on 19 March 1937. [30] Waldron also has memories of the happier occasion of hosting mothers and newborns in …
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… that by 1851, the Irish Catholic population in British North America (i.e. United Province of Canada (Canada West and Canada East), Nova … origin and religion, it did so with the 1931 Canadian Census in which one-third of the Irish population in Canada was Catholic and two-thirds … 450,000 Irish migrants arrived in British North America. Less than one-half of them were Catholic, and of the Protestant majority, most …