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  • Hilda Fisher and Harry Mitcheltree
    … Major Harry L. Mitcheltree Royal Canadian Engineers 1911 – 1977 Harry was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, raised in Banff Alberta and completed his post secondary studies in Calgary. Between December 14, 1931 and … Hilda Fisher and Harry Mitcheltree …
  • Monica Forberger
    … General My Hungarian father and German mother and I arrived on what we later referred to as … mother, the pastor and one of the crewmembers. Even the captain took ill on this horrendous voyage. When we arrived in Halifax we were greeted by …
  • Learning How to Eat a Banana in Quarantine at Pier 21
    … A brave little boy named Peep Aljas spent his first days in Canada under quarantine. He was born in Estonia in 1941 during the first Soviet occupation. He …
  • Heidi L. Grundke
    … 1951 was the first year Germans were allowed to emmigrate to Canada. It was only six years after the war, … in an office building. Again from a letter. We inherited a bed eal here; our predecessors left us a lot of dirt and some unwanted … patients).- Our present job is neither nice nor easy, but nobody has pity on us. All newcomers here have to start modestly and be …
  • Fredrick Mwenengabo
    … Canadian Values Time 0:03:41 Transcript (Translated from French) I really love … uh, yes , there’s a justice process, influenced by the international community, but he’s already dead. I’ve known many people, colleagues, …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Delicious and jam-packed with history
    … Patties, like these ones from Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint in Halifax, are a great meal to warm up a Canadian Winter.   Are Jamaican Patties the most history-packed food in Canada? Okay, okay, … open up the patty and see what’s inside. Colonization and Hand-Pies Jamaica, home to the Indigenous Taíno people, was colonized first by …
  • Carmine, Antonietta Perri and Family
    … I was 9 years old when I emigrated to Canada in May, 1957 with my mother Antonietta … at Pier 21, Halifax on May 16, 1957. I remember customs was a big hall and the younger children were put in another room to play. I … that others weren't so lucky. She witnessed containers of olive oil hidden in a mattress. As the custom officer punctured the mattress …
  • Hugh M. Kelly
    … The Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC)is … to have been part of it. Mr. Kelly’s experience went far beyond his work at ICCRC. He had over 50 years of experience in advising …
  • Private Albin Carl Norlander
    … At nineteen years of age, Pte Norlander enlisted in the Armed Forces at Edmonton, Alberta on 20th of March 1942. Sometime in … for further training in the UK and Scotland. On June 28th 1943, with his Loyal Edmonton Regiment he sailed from Scotland to join other allied invasion forces for the landing on Sicily on 10th of July 1943. …

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