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… August 22, 2018 Halifax, NS Saputo Family commemorates arrival in Canada with $1M donation to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier … retrace their journey, marking the occasion with the announcement of a one million dollar gift from the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation to … Saputo Hall is a hub of activity where public and educational programs come to life and visitors gather for exhibition openings and guided …
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… On July 16, 1952 my family left Rotterdam Netherlands on the ship … in Canada. Mom (Elske), Dad (Marinus), my four brothers and I slept in one hut with 3 bunk beds and a crib. It was crowded. Many people were … Canadian soil. The Gray nuns were right there to greet us. Later that day we all boarded the train for Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was a very …
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… Commemorative Plaque Dedicate a special anniversary or honour a loved one with the gift of a Commemorative plaque on the Sobey Wall of … applicable tax. The keepsake plaque is a mounted replica, like the one below, to display at home or to give to a loved one. To order a Keepsake plaque, please contact: Sukanksha (Su) Khatri …
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… 1939-1945; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp; France and Germany Star Clayton William Voutier of North Sydney, Nova Scotia … Empress of Scotland in April 1944. Landing in Normandy two days after D-Day, Clayton was subsequently assigned to the 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment, … as a Gunner, in August. He served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, his regiment returning to Zwolle, Holland at the end of the …
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… beginning. Chub's military records reveal that he only had three one-week opportunities to get to know her before they married on April … spirits. Chub was liberated on May 2nd, 1945 and was repatriated to Canada in July, where he was immediately hospitalized. He continued to … to new country and having to stay with a strange family." Having come from such a picturesque part of Scotland, with its many lochs and …
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… from Budapest. I saw five pointed stars in our town square, weighing many tons, tumble to the ground. Political prisoners were freed from jails. As the army troops moved in the fighting … but because his landlord was a party member the trials went on and on, this of course prompted my father to make the decision to leave the …
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… I also had that grandmother who married a Canadian First World War soldier in England. He was killed in France in August 1918. She received … way it goes. The family properties were established, but the ancestors die or leave and slowly nature takes over. How did you start writing … It’s sometimes difficult—I’ve been verbally attacked for coming here from the United States. Some of the Canadian media’s …
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… angry and shipped off the whole group. We were expecting my brother to come home on scheduled leave when we received a letter from him from England, where they had been sent without furlough or any chance to say good-bye to their families. From England he was sent … 1944 at the Lamone River Crossing. We received word of his death two days before Christmas, the day I received a C Christmas card from him …
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… On August 4, 1956, the Alessandroni Family had landed at Pier 21, Halifax. There they set foot to a new … Giulio Cesare and Gabriela Maria Alessandroni with their daughter Anna Teresa. Credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 … spring of 1954, my older sister was born. The young couple named her Anna Teresa, in honour of my father’s own and only sister who had died …
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… thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, what you going to have: always … give advice to them is that, don’t be choosy about your job. Take what come along because you never think—know what it take you to next step. …