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… Harbor on January 17th, 1948, was the General Stuart Heintzelman. She was a merchant vessel. She sailed out of Bremerhaven, Germany, the … my mind off my misery was to ask for a job in the ship’s gallery, where I was granted a minor service- that of passing out trays to the … University, of Lenuoxville, Quebec, on the same day. I jokingly say that I am walking in my daughter’s footsteps; she also majored in …
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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 Second World War, my father being an air …
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… Several War Brides set sail with their children from Southampton, England at the beginning …
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… an uncontrollable mob, targeting Chinese and Japanese residents of the city and destroying their personal property. [3] Following the …
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… Act in 1908, prohibiting the landing of any immigrant that did not come to Canada by continuous journey from the country of which they … of people began to terrorize Chinese and Japanese residents of the city and destroy their property. [1] Following the Vancouver Riot, the …
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… to Canada 1951: left Plymouth May 19, 1951, arrived at Pier 21 on May 26, on the S.S. Europe . By train to Vancouver, BC, was taken to … Started working June 3, 1951, and retired from the saw mill November 26, 1985. First two years pulling lumber on the big green chain, next … join them as inspector, still being at the same mill, worked the next 26 years as inspector. I married in 1961 and have four kids, two boys …
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… was our neighbour,” says Moni Sood, looking relaxed and content as he sits beside his wife, Usha, on their sofa. “Next house.” It’s a statement dropped as casually as most people talk about the weather. The passage of time has dulled the edges of the unease the Soods … to work or came home, it was in a convoy,” says Moni. “If you were there, you got off the road. If it meant going into a ditch, you went in …
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… to commemorate the life of my parents Anselmo Furlan (1907-1963) and Elena Romagnoli (1914-1996) and of my younger brother Giovanni … the Atlantic on the Scythia in thirteen days between sky and agitated sea. From Halifax, we then travelled by train to Quebec City still very much snowed in at that time of the year. My parents …
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… plant grows on the Pacific Northwest coast and has nourished and healed Indigenous communities living there for countless generations. This recipe for … thinly on a dehydrator mat. Step 3: Dehydrate at 135° until the berry paste is brittle enough to break into crackers. Serve with the toppings …
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… Canada after I finish grade 5, in that time I don’t have the basic knowledge of what really happen, it just feel like a very far away thing to me in that time. As the time pass I soon turn in to the age of 10 and the time has come. I miss everything I had in Hong Kong, but I know life is like a …