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  • Vietnam Draft - Tom Corcoran
    … States Time 0:01:07 Transcript Tom Corcoran (TC): Yup. So I didn’t come back and as soon as I didn’t come back, I lost whatever college deferment I had as far as the military was concerned. And then I ended …
  • Maria Rosaria Pagano
    … I came to Canada in November 1961 with my son, Luigi Antonio Pagano and my daughter, Maria Grazia Pagano. My … 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 …
  • Daxa Popat
    … Life in Uganda - A Multifaceted Community Time 0:01:10 Transcript I speak English, Gujarati, Gujarati’s … My mother is born in India and she came to Uganda when she was eleven… We were Ugandan. We were all born there so we were all Ugandan … to live here, and we’re not going to go back—if we go visit, fine. I visited once, but at that time the new government came they were giving …
  • Quarantine at Pier 21 Made Coming to Canada feel like being put in Jail
    … Netherlands and in the spring of 1953 her parents decided to move. “My parents had decided to leave our home in Apeldoorn to seek out new … The Second World War had itself been a trial. Under Nazi occupation, my father, Herman, had become involved in Resistance activities, a risk …
  • Life for Family Left Behind - Cathy Wirick
    … Leaving the United States Time 0:02:43 Transcript My parents disowned … New Haven, Connecticut, because I felt still I was in the States, but coming to Canada, he wouldn't, my ex-husband wouldn't have been allowed … about his son being a draft dodger. So, that was sad. And the FBI visited his mom twice in Newark, Delaware to tell her that, if you can …
  • Martin O. Kloet
    … Families October 28, 1953 – Groote Beer The immigration for me, siblings and parents started shortly after the Second World War … need a better future for our children". The people in Holland had just come through a war and were trying to rebuild, but there was no housing …
  • One Person’s Quarantine Room Divider is Another Person’s Fort
    … Vita Seidler contracted the measles shortly after emigrating from Russia with her mother and siblings in December of 1928 to join their father in Montreal. “…my dad met us in Montreal…Ah, the excitement! I got off and we went to … care, because I would get meals…my cousin and his wife, they put a sheet from the ceiling down so they could be separate, and then the …
  • Margaret Van Toen
    … Let's Pier into the Past by Joy Forbes & Helen Weeden Pages 8-12 only based on mom's … MRS. GOLDBLOOM Now, let's head over to the Resource Centre where you can look up more information about your own family's trip. There are … to help you. The students leave via stage left. Meanwhile on the other side of stage, an official points towards the Immigration area to where …
  • Eric Wicherts
    … BSc 1951, geology and geophysics). There was no particular reason for me to leave the Netherlands. I had a good position at the National … who travelled through Canada on the massive Canadian trains. Imagine me, as a young boy reading in bed this fascinating story about a boy … then occupation. Then the country was liberated by the Canadians, in my case Regiment de la Chaudiere, then followed the encouraged …
  • LACW Grace Shewan
    … War 2. When I was 19 years old, I was notified, as were all others my age in England, to attend an interview to decide what I would be … 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 …

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