• From “Gutter Children” to Home Children: child migrants in the archives of the Canadian Museum of Immigration
    by Sorcha Clarke This is a guest post from Visiting Researcher Sorcha Clarke, a PhD candidate at Ulster University / Queen's University Belfast. It contains frank discussion of the difficult circumstances encountered by Home Children before and during their placements in Canada, including physical …
  • Kucha Family
    … Sharon Bonnallie Hungarian Immigrants Minnedosa (Steven) July 23, 1926 Berlin III (Margaret) February 11, 1934 Age: 5 years 8 mos for Steven F 8 years for Margaret S (left Hungary on her birthday) January 26, 1934 Steven F. Kucha, Jr. (Istvan Kucsa, Jr.) left from his homeland of Fot, Hungary, with his mother (Mary), and sailed from …
  • Jozwiak, Yarosh,
    … Mary Jozwiak, born Juzwiak, on December 24, 1907, in the village of Zboriw, Zarudka, Austria, to Jacobus Juzwiak, who was … Road in Welland Ontario. John Yarosh, born Joannes Jarosz on January 26, 1905 in the village of Dubowce, Tarnopol, Austria, to Terentius … - Hnat, Nikola, and third-unknown. Paranka died at an early age. His father remarried Sadie (also known as Hsenka or Ksenia) Mohylska. …
  • Ron Baylis
    … Type: Immigrant Port of Entry: Halifax, Pier 21 Date of Arrival: March 26, 1964 I arrived at pier21 on March 26 1964 and took the train to Toronto where I was met by my aunt who …
  • Sbarra
    … breeze was sweeping the air in the sunny mid-morning of Tuesday, June 26, 1951. The USNS General Harry Taylor , a U.S. merchant ship which served during World War II, was slowly approaching the port of Halifax, N.S. Our family of four … for the moment when the uncomfortable ocean crossing would finally come to an end. We were taciturn while the sound of the waves striking …
  • Lorenzo Cosentino
    … The Immigration Story of Lorenzo Cosentino (Italian immigrant) Lorenzo left his town of San Nicola da Crissa, Calabria (Catanzaro) with several … 1951 on the ITALIA (Aquila). They arrived in Halifax (Pier 21) on June 26, 1951. They all departed Halifax by train heading to Toronto where …
  • Women at Risk Refugee Program - Kathleen Sigurdson
    … Becoming a Refugee Time 1:39 Transcript Kathleen Sigurdson (KS): Because … started, I started, obviously with headquarters approval, a women at risk refugee program, so very small, talking maybe fifty people a year. … that live in the camp and have been living there for years. They come over by boat from Somalia, it’s quite treacherous actually. And …
  • After Almost 60 Years Apart, a Family Finds Each Other
    … We get many research requests here at the Scotiabank Family History Centre and none more challenging than looking for living … that we have to use other ways, which tend to be less detailed and can lead us down the wrong path or to “dead ends.” However, not every … After Almost 60 Years Apart, a Family Finds Each Other …
  • Alois Wilhelm Escher
    … An Exciting Adventure in a New Land This is the story of a stubborn, ambitious man who beat the odds. A man … could see a new life, happiness and a place of respect in the America he's heard about from his older brother Theodor who had preceded him to … of Aloys (Anglicized as Alois) Wilhelm Escher, born March 13, 1906 #26 Kampstrasse, Gladbeck, Westfallen, Germany. That particular house …
  • LACW Grace Shewan
    … 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 … a secret at all?!! The ‘Secrets of Radar’ Museum in our London, ON has a great deal to show. There was quite a Canadian connection since … very different as it was radar on the offensive. This radar was called Oboe. Our equipment was radio connected to Mosquito fighters which flew …