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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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… 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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… pulled the wagons, the plow and provided us milk at the end of the day. We lived outside the war zone and when food got scarce in 1945 my …
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… For 150 years, millions of people have come from far and wide to call Canada home. And while they each experience the challenges and … they call the Volendam In nineteen hundred fifty one, a Canadian to become. A call came out from St. Laurent to European shores Come to our … Thank You Canada …
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… I left my hometown of Lee on Solent on the 20th of March bound for Canada on the ship Scythia. My family was in Lee on Solent throughout the …
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… Robert Hutchings and David Tinker playing shuffleboard en route to Canada, 1953. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (DI2013.1143.2). … Michael and David Tinker …
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… Eva “a hell of a time.” Eva and Bill, as did many others, desired to come to Canada for a better life. The news on the radio and newspaper … fell down from the top bunk and almost injured himself severely one day. Eva described the boat as nice and big, but not too big. There was …
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… his mother but until his father received wages the family could not come to Canada. His mother Louisa Mildred and siblings George William … He was positive about his life and remained so pleased that he had come to Canada in 1912 and had the opportunities that came his way. On …
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… to join his father, so I had him look after my son and they would chum around the ship together, otherwise I would not let him leave our …