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… and friendliness of teachers and children helped a lot. “Alas, however, they didn’t go for more than a week before Martin & John developed unusual coughs … to keep their distance. “I found this a little hard to bear as I had never been one to let my children loose with infectious diseases. …
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… moved by this re-creation and the wonderfully, moving story line; well done. How wonderful it would be to have more written storylines of the new … the Abbey, and he was a POW for 11 months and worked the gas chambers while threatened with death: WHAT A JOY TO SEE PIER 21 AGAIN! My mother …
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… known as Jan Willem. I vividly recall boarding the S.S. Waterman. I can still see my mother standing between many people as I was thinking if I would ever see her again. She took a deep breath and I could see her pain. I will remember … last goodbye. The crossing took eight days with my son bunking with me while my husband bunked with some other men elsewhere on the ship. My …
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… It stayed in the Cornwall area for two years and learned first hand how tough it was to be a stranger in a new country. Poverty, … An eighth child, Freda, was born in 1954. In May 1955, the family again packed up and moved to southwestern Ontario, to the town of …
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… May 1946. Jean left Haywards Heath February 1946 and we did not meet again for 21 years. She came east to visit me in North Sydney, Cape Breton by air, staying for a month or so, on her way back to England to care for our Mother, who was still living in our home there in Haywards Heath. In 1969, we met again in Britain, then I visited British Columbia when Jean lived in …
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… found to be suffering from leprosy or an infectious disease, as well as any Chinese woman known to be a prostitute. Amendments to the … a demand for labour, and by the 1890s, Chinese immigrants were once again arriving in Canada by the thousands. Increased Chinese … to deter Chinese immigration and levels remained as high as they had been in previous years. By 1903, the number of Chinese arriving in …
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… decided to travel to Canada. I stayed in Chile with my two-year-old son, waiting for the moment we would join him. My husband arrived in … denied us Canadian residency. We hired a lawyer to appeal, and he recommended that we move to Toronto. In Toronto, we had to start from … to support a new law to avoid this type of fraud from happening again. The Ministry made a video about our story, which is on their …
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… disaster in Canadian history. Artist-in-Residence 2016 Kyle Jackson Watch the video: Time 0:05:22 Transcript Hi, I'm Kyle … November 2015 to November 2106. Music: “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” hymn instrumental performed by Steven Sharp Nelson (“Sacred … Picture Map of St. Lawrence: National Library of the Netherlands, 52309. …
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… newspapers, she managed to find her husband in Canada. He sent funds so the family could be reunited. They arrived on May 20, 1950. Kateryna did not see her own family in the Ukraine again until 1976. …
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… greet us. However when we landed at Pier 21 in the late afternoon, we had to wait one more day on the ship before we could disembark. My Dad … my aunt, who was my dad's sister. As a nine year old boy I do remember some of the highlights when leaving our village in the Netherlands. … When I saw all of those ships and was told by my dad that we were going on that ship. I will never forget that. We were week at sea. …