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… to reach land again. At Pier 21 we were taken to a large hall where we sat until it was our turn for customs and a health check-up. Once that … the inside walls, there was a sand floor, we had wooden crates to sit on and put our food in a well to stay cold. By fall the work season … my father tried share-cropping on a farm for about a year but due to a poor season and lack of rain he returned to greenhouse work at another …
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… Mary Margaret Gregg was a War Bride born and living in South Wales. She was one of four siblings (Edward, Wil, Meghan, and … Farm, Llethri Rd., Felinfoel, Llanelli, S. Wales. Mary and baby Peter set sail from Southampton on the Queen Mary (July 16, 1946) and … a train to head across this vast unknown country called Canada for the city of Fernie, B.C. There they were greeted by James (who had never …
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… with the other immigrant kids on St. Urbain Street who were all poor, but didn’t know it. It meant being placed into school with kids 2 … What did Morris Ladenheim eventually learn about those who did not come to Canada? He learned of the murder of his grandparents by the … living with his wife and 2 children. He learned that Canada had said “no” to many Jews trying to escape the Nazis and their “Final …
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… Canada. His ultimate intentions were to settle in Toronto, Ontario, a city that his father had settled in just a year earlier. Giovanni … and future wife, Concetta DeGasperis . They were married on August 26, 1961 and soon started a family of their own welcoming in to the …
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In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition of the Museum, there is a section called Treasures From Home, with artifacts and props representing what immigrants brought with them as sailed to Canada. The objects are contained in a large wooden case and include many different objects: a bicycle, a pair …
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In the Museum’s Pier 21 Story exhibition , there is a section called Treasures From Home , with artifacts and props representing what immigrants brought with them as they sailed to Canada. The objects are contained in a large wooden case and include many different objects: a bicycle, a pair of …
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… helped us settle. For the first half year, I was fed the cream at the top of the milk jugs so I could gain some weight and strength. That didn't always sit well with my sisters, who felt I was "spoiled." In 2002, I had the …
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… in Manchester, England and immigrated to Canada arriving in Quebec City May 27, 1912 on the Tunisian. He died in Vancouver, BC December … family had to delay their passage. He spoke of “feeling like a big shot” traveling alone although he later appreciated how hard it must … and buying him food for the train trip West. As his father was farming south of Moose Jaw, Fred was to find Mr. Cooper in Moose Jaw who knew …
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… of coldness. Yet, it was fraught with hope, the kind of hope that is pure and unbreakable. She thrived, made a nest, and had three children. … She could not talk, even think; yet, if there were something to be said in those numbed hours of pain, it was uttered by the brown birds …
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… Time 0:02:28 Transcript I called Thailand refugee camp a home because I was born there. It wasn’t … camp, because Piobolu was burned. I remember the day I found out I was coming to Canada. I didn’t know what to think. My dad thought coming to …