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… I was so happy that I cried, we all did. On that day when we have to come to Canada I was kind of sad because I won’t be able to play with … After that we got on the airplane and flew all the way to Canada. We come to a place call welcome house in Vancouver. I was so tired I sleep like a dead person all …
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… waterfront facility only saw one of the most important areas of the site if something went wrong during their examinations. If there was a … dormitories ran along the west (inland) wall of the second storey of Shed 21. These were large, plain rooms with simple metal beds and … strong rooms, which were located in the centre of the second storey of Shed 21, was more strict. It was also much less common. [2] The cells …
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… 9, 1897 in Nataly, Poland to Vincenti and Ewa Warelis . Like many of the young men of his era he served in World War I and was hospitalized for nine months in Prague after sustaining severe injuries to his back and neck during the war. Zofia Warelis (nee Milcharek) was born on December 25, 1905 to …
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… Entry: Halifax Date of Arrival: October 21, 1951 Age on Arrival: 23 The Immigration Story of Mario Chiarvesio (Italian Immigrant) Mario Chiarvesio was born on April 3rd, 1928, the last of three children of Bonaventura Chiarvesio and Giulia Lizzi in the town of Fagagna in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of northeast …
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… schooling I obtained at St. Mark's School and secondary schooling at the Marquis Public School. Later education includes an Honours B.A. from … five. At the age of sixteen the spirit of adventure overtook him and he set sail for Canada where his eldest brother George, ten years his senior, was homesteading near Kindersley, Saskatchewan. At one point Dad worked as a farm hand just south of Saskatoon; at another he …
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… Let me explain how she expressed some accounts of post- World War II events that occurred in her picturesque Austrian town of Steyr. But … to outline some introductory comments about her immigration to this side of the ocean extracted from my book " Pier 21 - 1951 Our Family’s … during the war itself were confined to evacuating out of the city into the farmland, these events were not very significant per se ; …
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… I did. I liked Marx and I liked Hegel. But I wasn't a member of the Communist Party. And most of the people, I know—I remember, there were also, were not members of the Communist Party. We were called, "Communists, traitors. How could you do this to your country? You know, …
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… some tests was asked if I would like to become a Radar Operator. I said ‘what’s that’ as I imagine most people did since Radar was not in … sworn to an oath of secrecy which was not fully lifted for 50 years. Can you imagine in this day and age, something involving so many people being kept a secret at …
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… to you: some words you understand some you don’t. At that time two ladies asked me to give blood. I didn’t understand the word blood; I had …
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… individuals, or 37 percent of the movement, chose to resettle in Canada. [1] The Netherlands experienced a surplus of farmers after the … warm enough for a Canadian winter. The Afman fammily spent a boring day in Halifax awaiting their evening departure. They wandered the city buying bread, jam, and butter having been informed that the prices …