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… Ship Name: Vulcania Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax Date of Arrival: December 24, 1951 I arrived at Pier 21 on December 24, 1951 on Italia Liner "Vulcania" from Lofer, Austria via Genoa. I got married to another landed immigrant, Maria De Gyorossy-Csepreghy , on April 4, 1956. On the …
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… MARIA MARRONE Born: Maria Di Girolamo August 25, 1933 Fossacessia, Italy Immigration: 1956 Date … Sudbury Ontario Occupation: Housewife /Seamstress/Factory Employee Died: May 13, 2004 Toronto, Ontario Maria was born in Fossacesia, … often staid, but never bitter. She got married at nineteen on a day that was as unassuming as the event itself—just she and her …
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… Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript …
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… PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with Canadians started before … a Canadian Army camp on Bramshott Common on one side of the main London Portsmouth Road, and a hospital on the other side. So when the war … we could walk. So my Dad relented. On the 24th of June 1944, a lovely day, and after Steve having to bail his best-man, George Nelson, out of …
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… which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
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… which was seeking settlers and made attractive promises to such newcomers. However the Russian Czars of that period reneged on promises … to first attract settlers. This was also during the time when both Canada and the US had enacted Homestead Acts offering land to any settlers … he gouged himself badly with his shaving razor. He and his fellow soldiers spent the next days combing through the mountains of twisted …
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… on Arrival: 23 // 22 Angelo This is the story of my father, Angelo Paladino and his immigration to Canada. Angelo was born in Santa Croce Di … had made it to Canada and the U.S. years earlier where they had done well. He was determined to go and seek his fortune at the earliest … a Canadian citizen. He was able to sponsor three of his brothers to come to Canada as well. He had four children and seven grandchildren …
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… Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He … had money in his pocket and a full stomach. He was a grandfather and a Canadian citizen with full rights to go anywhere he pleased. This time … he arrived at Pier 21 on July 28, 1951 aboard the Saturnia. With him today were his brother, who had followed him from Italy in 1958, and his …
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… an island off shore from Helsinki. There several months later he would die. Pa remembered how his sister and mother cried when they found out … army and there excelled as a soccer player. Life in Finland in the days following the civil war was hard, but with his Finnish "sisu" he … and sisters. In 1929, at the urging of his mother who had emigrated to Canada the previous year, he decided to leave Finland in search of a …
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… giving an account of recent bombings and remarking, "now the Germans can swim across the English channel and invade Britain." In July, I … Anne MacKinnon Jeffrey , and later me, that we were leaving for Canada within forty-eight hours, with other Scottish evacuees. There … was the largest I had ever seen. It was spectacular! The following day, we spotted an iceberg, and later, we sighted land. Then, on August …