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Emigrating To Canada September 1956 The photograph below was taken in front of our doorway at 473 Schimmelweg Straat, Rijswijk, Den Haag, Nederland on the morning of our departure. It was September 16, 1956. From tallest to shortest, we are Ben, Rina, Fred, Nettie (Jeannette) and Joop (John) …
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… Gunner Herbert Sande …
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… Craftsman H.M. Holmes …
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Assunta Nicolini …
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(My Husband) Natale Leardi His recollection of his experience on emigrating follows. Leaving family and friends at age 17, he and his mother Assunta Leardi left Naples for their one-week journey and landed in Halifax on July 25, 1963, 55 years ago. He remembers having to wake up each morning of …
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Audrey married Steve Charles of the Royal Canadian Army on September 8,1941. For many years they resided in Manitoba where they had 8 other children. … Audrey Blackmar …
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Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Conte Biancamano Date of Arrival: September 18, 1955 … Angelo Menzella …
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My mother Anna Hirschmann and I arrived on the Scythia at Pier 21 on December 23, 1951 from where we were moved by train to Montreal. I was 12 years old at this time and my mother had just had her 44th birthday (December 18) while crossing the Atlantic. Both my father and grandfather and other …
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Anna Kucharska entered Canada as a landed immigrant, coming to her father who was residing in Toronto, Ontario at that time. At the age of seventeen, Anna left the only world she had known. Leaving behind her mother and siblings, she undertook the long and difficult journey to an unknown country, …
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Alumni Type: Landed Immigrant Date of Arrival: October 26, 1957 Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia … Maria Teresa Cartaginese …