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… but did tell the story of having shredded wheat for Christmas dinner one year as the ship's supplies were low. He also said that while at … and Daniel. His family meant everything to him and he showed it every day. He had four grandchildren; Todd, Adam, Lauren and Heather and at …
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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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… Angela Bianchini nee Toneguzzo On June 23, 1958, my mother, Angela (Toneguzzo) Bianchini … boarded the Queen Frederica in Genoa, Italy to join her husband in Canada. Not knowing when she would see them again, saying good-bye to … loaf of white sliced bread, a can of sardines and a jar of strawberry jam. Being accustomed to the Italian crusty bread, my mother did not …
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… PIER 21 : Recollections by Jean Laffin (Nee Shephard), War Bride 1944 My association with … put onto each Canadian grave for the memorial service. I had often gone along with my Mother and helped her on these occasions. There had … we could walk. So my Dad relented. On the 24th of June 1944, a lovely day, and after Steve having to bail his best-man, George Nelson, out of …
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… Quartermaster Sergeant. After arriving in England, he was stationed with the Canadian army as the armed forces continued to prepare … landed on Juno Beach with the 9th Infantry Brigade, part of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. He was a member of one of the first infantry companies to enter Caen on July 9. On July …
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… Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
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… on S.S. Metagama to England arriving on Oct 25, 1915. While stationed in England his diary mentions the zeppelin raids he saw. He spent … food. Entries in his pay records show that he was paid one dollar a day and an extra ten cents a day when in the trenches. He called the …
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… music or live entertainment is employed. SOCAN (the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) represents music creators and publishers; Re:Sound represents artists and record companies. Both organizations are governed by the Copyright Board of … day. On weekends, evenings (6 p.m. to 7 a.m.) and holidays parking is complimentary. On-street metered parking is also available near the …
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… of British colonialism and was inspired by a desire for colonies to be composed of mostly British settlers. The group of nearly 2,000 … that Indigenous peoples posed them no threat. Their neighbours would primarily be Europeans, Americans, and “Scotch servants of the Hudson’s … wild onions for which it was named were a welcome addition to their diet in the spring, the land itself was not good for the purposes of …
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… also sing there too. One time the Karen youth in Langley did a singing competition. I signed my name on a list and they pick me. On that day I … I went back to Thailand to help my people. In my dream I don’t want to come back in Canada because all the kids in the camp want me to stay there forever but my family want me to come back in Canada. At that moment I asked my brother to make a song …