• Bernardus T.J. Arts
    … World War II broke out and was 14 when it finished. He remembered the day the Germans invaded Holland, the buzz of VI and VII bombs and the explosions in the fields around his house. Throughout …
  • Bill,Eva,George,Tom,Mae
    … Georgios (George), 8, and Thomas (Tom), 7, traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the Queen Frederica (S.S. Vasilissa Friederiki) … Eva “a hell of a time.” Eva and Bill, as did many others, desired to come to Canada for a better life. The news on the radio and newspaper … fell down from the top bunk and almost injured himself severely one day. Eva described the boat as nice and big, but not too big. There was …
  • Port of Precedence: A History of Immigration at the Port of Quebec Part 2
    … (Updated October 22, 2020) Immigration through the Port of Quebec during the 1920s In the 1920s, the Port of Quebec’s primary function became grain export. However, the site continued to be a major point of entry for …
  • Lieutenant John Forbes Monroe
    … as a Lieutenant. See photo. He was then posted to HMCS Cornwallis in Nova Scotia, and following that, to Halifax. At that time housing was … Dartmouth and Halifax was fairly isolated from habitation. See photo. VE Day in Halifax, like many cities and towns throughout Canada, saw the …
  • The Juozas Dubauskas Family
    … arrived in 1949 as war refugees to begin a new life in Canada. To this day I am grateful for their courage and the sacrifices they made. I thank God for the freedom, the beauty and the way of life this wonderful country has given me. By Rutelle Bembridge nee Dubauskas (daughter) …
  • Staff Sergeant James Gregg
    … James Gregg was one of seven siblings (William, Gerald, Richard, James, Gertrude, John, and … two months there and then it was back on the train and on to Halifax Nova Scotia where James boarded a ship for overseas. Once on British … the call came to deploy to Europe and immediately go into action. A day they feared but approached with apprehension and anticipation to …
  • Clarecia Christie
    … Clarecia Christie was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at the University of the West Indies in Kingston where she earned a master’s degree in international …
  • Marta Palancz
    … 1951 with her parents and her surviving brother and sister (Béla and Éva died before they left for Canada). In the years that followed, they … leave. Before the Iron Curtain could fall upon what would thereafter become Eastern Europe, he dragged his wife and their three surviving … picturing that, come the end of the war, things would return to the way they had been in his memories. It goes without saying that things …
  • Irene Ferguson McNeil
    … Clyde McNeil, on January 28, 1943. Irene Cecilia, was born October 26, 1943, at Ruskin College, Oxford, England. Canadian mother-in-law was concerned due … in London, England and wanted her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to come to Canada. Arrived in Halifax on the ship, Ile de France (carrying …
  • Forbundet af Danske Foreninger i Canada • Federation of Danish Associations in Canada • Fédération des Associations Danoises au Canada
    … Forbundet af Danske Foreninger i Canada Federation of Danish Associations in Canada Fédération des Associations Danoises au Canada From Denmark we came with hopes and dreams, but also with tools in hand. To build a … Forbundet af Danske Foreninger i Canada • Federation of Danish Associations in Canada • …