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… My mother, brothers and I immigrated to Canada in 1955, nine months after my father did. We traveled on the … and I would sneak up on deck. We would sit on the deck chairs and ride the waves up and down. When I think about it now, we were lucky we … kept us in. My mother thought the Dutch money she had was not legal in Canada and spent it on ice cream for us and our friends or she would …
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… Time 0:01:22 Transcript: In our section Escape by Sea in Refuge Canada we have these two life jackets that were worn by children who … boat in the Mediterranean sea in 2015 They’re on loan to us from the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. These two children were in a … as his family seeks asylum in a country in the European Union. One can only just think about the little person wearing this life jacket …
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… flashing the peace sign, um, and so, there was a lot of support for the – you know the anti-war uh, sentiment was very strong in …
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… contact the Museum’s Collection Manager collections@pier21.ca or Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road Halifax, … we will cease providing access to the work until or unless it can determine that such uses are permitted. The Museum may work with …
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… and we chummed around together during the voyage. After five years in Canada I sometimes wondered how these brides fared. Unfortunately I did … Scotland, in time to celebrate Christmas 1940. He served in the Royal Canadian Artillery in England and Europe returning to Canada on the Pasteur June 1945. He can remember how elated he felt as …
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… DIMITRI AND ANASTASIA TARASUK FAMILY: VOYAGE TO CANADA Dimitri (35) and Anastasia (33) and their five children, Mary … Jeanne (3) and Walter (2) emigrated to Horodische in the Ukraine to Canada in 1930, aboard the ship Koscuiszko. Political unrest and fear … for another chapter. However, the family were successful farmers and four more children were in Canada: Peter, Laura, John and Arthur. …
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… Age on Arrival: 3 years old My Family will be celebrating 50 years in Canada on March 2nd, 2008, immigrating from our southern roots of Rende … have been travelling with a total of seven children on this voyage to Canada. Filomena , Pasquale, Franco, Anna, Julianna, Mario (me), and … enough to purchase a home on St. Annes Rd. in Toronto's West end. I can viividly recall the grass lawn covered with a topping of white snow …
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… me. I joined up, in five months I was in England and I was there for four years and I drove over one hundred and forty thousand miles in England alone. I was in the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and I was on what they … you spent half and hour or so looking at it different things would come such as convoys, the train stations and so on. You would mark that …
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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 … of not knowing if we were doing the right thing in immigrating to Canada. My husband was a blacksmith by trade and had been working in … show horses (Hackney Horses) in Downsview (suburb of Toronto). After four and one half years, the farm was sold to the Downsview Airport and …
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… with my mother, brothers and sisters, always hoping to some day come to a free country. Coming out of war ravaged Europe, Canada was … our hunger. But my mother said, When we get to Canada (pronounced Kahn-aud-ah) we will be able to eat all we want. I owned a pair of …