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… The journey from Supino, a small community in the Province of Frosinone, started early February of 1964 as the family prepared to immigrate … journey to Toronto. They would have their first Canadian meal on this train. As part of the meal white loaf bread was served, this bread … to Canada, Gaetano and Angela welcomed their son, Walter, the first official Canadian Citizen in the family. They were so happy that Canada …
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… were fleeing the increasing hostility of the Nazis in Danzig (then a Free City located in the corridor between Germany and Poland). Echt’s … When in 1948, the Mayor of Halifax appointed Fineberg to be the city’s official greeter at Pier 21, (a role she undertook on a volunteer basis), her position at the JIAS …
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… Your Story. Canada's Story. Telling our stories preserves our history. A gift in your Will preserves Canada’s immigration stories, forever. Here are two stories from caring and compassionate Canadians like you who have taken the step of remembering … I locked in the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 as one of its beneficiaries. The historian in me saw it as a way to …
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… Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army and driven in a private car along with a girl named Beatrice to the hotel. This place is very nice and quite near Hyde Park. We … by a voice at the microphone saying,"6:30: time to rise and shine, come on girls, get out of bed." We were up on deck by 7:30 and our …
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… John Hamilton Glawson 26 May 1923 – 2 August 2003 Member of Hartney Branch #26 & Brandon … (born in 1931). During the depression, the family moved to a “soddy” (a small home constructed with sod blocks, twigs, thin branches and hay) built by his father, Hailey at Oak Lake. After his dad’s sudden … Bombardier John Hamilton Glawson …
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By Haroon Khalid, Anam Zakaria, and Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, and we will always be okay, hopefully.” Rammah Mohammad. [1] Introduction In 2024, the Canadian …
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… comes that you only pray that God will show you the way; at least this is the way it was with us. Under God’s guidance and blessing we … which had 1400 passengers and 500 crewmembers, to go to our new land Canada. The Atlantic Ocean can be pretty rough going in the winter so … running out of the dining room and heaving his meal overboard. One fellow lost his teeth. We were told, we could not take any money on …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 2, 2020) Introduction Travellers … Canada’s border by car are asked by customs officers whether they have anything to declare. Whether entering the country at the border, … coffee, tea and patented medicines. Products that remained tariff-free were busts, dyes, gems, coal, eggs, rice, whale oil, wires, candle …
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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 …