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… We both went overseas in the spring of 1944 on a small troop ship which departed from Sydney NS and joined a convoy off Cape Breton which was on its way to England. I served with The Sherbrooke Fusilier Armoured Regiment …
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… arrived from Buenos Aires to Quebec City speaking no French . He’d come to do a Masters Degree at the Université Laval. It was 1988. “I was denied the opportunity to join the program because I didn’t speak … the world! The Rugby World Cup runs August 22-September 27, 2025. Newcomers who join a club instantly find themselves with a large group of …
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… arrived from Buenos Aires to Quebec City speaking no French . He’d come to do a Masters Degree at the Université Laval. It was 1988. “I was denied the opportunity to join the program because I didn’t speak … the world! The Rugby World Cup runs August 22-September 27, 2025. Newcomers who join a club instantly find themselves with a large group of …
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… and her son who was the driver piled in to their car to go to Naples. We were immigrating to Canada. Our journey was starting at 3 am and … the modern ships I am sure that it must have looked quite small by today's standards. The ship interior was like a hotel and fancy …
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… We both went overseas in the spring of 1944 on a small troop ship which departed from Sydney NS and joined a convoy off Cape Breton which was on its way to England. I served with The Sherbrooke Fusilier Armoured Regiment …
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… political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … the tags link visitors to the building’s past, they are also a way to communicate through time to the future. A message might be read by … started his note: “Dear me in 2025,” pledging to work hard and then come back to find his letter in a year’s time. Another visitor, …
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… political refugees as they were transported to Canada.” If these newcomers couldn’t understand or speak English or French, the tags … the tags link visitors to the building’s past, they are also a way to communicate through time to the future. A message might be read by … started his note: “Dear me in 2025,” pledging to work hard and then come back to find his letter in a year’s time. Another visitor, …
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… for a green card in the United States, they applied to come to Canada as refugees. The family qualified for refugee status due to the danger they would face if they returned to El Salvador. Through the … church in Winkler, Manitoba, the family was able to come to Canada in December 1988. Although Grace was 19 when she arrived in Canada, …
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… At the end of WWII, my father, Alberto, was released from a POW camp in North Africa … money to pay for my mother and I to travel from Italy to Canada. We arrived in October 1952. My first memory of my father is meeting him … St. Ann's Elementary School and then went on to Cathedral Boys High School. From there, I went to King's College at the University of …
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… and her husband had immigrated to Canada two years earlier and were living in Toronto. They sponsored me to come to Canada. I intended to work here for a while and then go back to … went from Naples to Lisbon, Portugal and then on to Halifax. At one point we hit very bad weather for days and the ship seemed to be flung …