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R.S.M. Bonnell, H. Elton, RCAMC: R.S.M Bonnell was born and raised in Prince Edward Island. He left his studies at Prince of Wales College in September/39, in order to enlist with RCAMC. He was posted to military hospitals in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia until his discharge in 1946. During his …
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L/Bdr George E. Bonnell …
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Signalman William E. Bonnell …
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Private Samuel Francis Ellis …
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Betty Dorothy Ellis …
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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 …
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by Western University's MA Public History Program Students The migration of the New England Planters was the first significant migration to the Atlantic colonies in British North America. In the wake of the deportation of the Acadians in 1755, newly cultivated lands opened up in Nova Scotia, which …
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by Western University's MA Public History Program Students Fugitive or Free? Prior to 1850, fugitive slaves who escaped from the southern United States to the northern states were considered to be free. However, after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the northern states were no longer …
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Michael Capo …
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Rafael Alcolado performs at the Museum at the 2018 opening of the Refuge Canada exhibition. First movement, Santiago de Cuba On January 1, 1959, Rafael Alcolado was a 12-year-old student at a Jesuit-run school, Colegio de Dolores , in Santiago de Cuba. That same day, on the other side of the …