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… behind people that I knew, you know, I had friends that were going off to war, maybe die, might be injured, traumatized by what they've … mind ever since. Even after all these years, I keep thinking about— in some ways I should have gone to understand the pain in what they went … little apprehensive still when I cross the border to the US and when I come home. There's that sigh of relief as you come across to Canadian …
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… with my youngest brother when my father left. We stayed behind so that my mother could take care of my paternal grandparents as they … grandmother Maria and our dog Fido. I recall asking my mother if we had enough money in the piggy bank to take Fido with us. I thought the trade off for leaving would be that we would be rich and live in luxury in …
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… Leonard Hodgkinson, Senior 4 th Engineer on the Titanic. He grew up in Hove, Sussex in southern England in a “Victorian” household. His mother … boy. At age 15, the Army would not take him as he was adopted, and he had no job prospects. In such cases, boys were sent off to the ‘colonies’ to earn a living. At that time, the Canadian …
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… owned by MacMillan Bloedel, or was provincial tree farm licence. So, this was sort of a unique piece of land. The town—and—we—in going there, and … Photograph of Peter Seixas splitting logs on the farming commune in Powell River, British Colombia, 1970-1973. Credit: Canadian …
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… uh, yes , there’s a justice process, influenced by the international community, but he’s already dead. I’ve known many people, colleagues, … with whom I received an award, for peace and human rights, from Solidarity Group in Washington, D.C. But it’s people like that, and I … and together, when we combine our efforts, I’m convinced we have or will have a world of peace, a world of prosperity. Biography: Fredrick …
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… When Andrew Peller stepped off the ship at Halifax’s Pier 21 in Spring 1927 from Hungary looking for a better life and a better future, he only had five dollars in his pocket but was rich with hope. With his wife Lena and baby son Joe remaining in Hungary until he was settled, Andrew began a long …
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… I consider September 4, 1949 my second birthday. I was born again on that date when I became a landed immigrant in Canada. Six … to Pier 21 in 1949 as a teenager and began to be a real person; a born again person. Ross Chomiak …
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… there was great panic as to whether or not they would get it started again. But as fate would have it, they managed to start it up again, and we made it safely to the Italian border in Ancona. We spent … three children and literally just the clothes on our backs. As they had to leave everything behind in their homeland. With the additional …
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… from our bedroom window on College Street which has become many years ago "Little Italy". I was difficult for my parents to raise 5 children. We all did well. It was a proud moment for my dad to become a Canadian citizen in … we thrived and excelled at school and made our parents proud. We never had vacations, TV and toys but we had plenty of love and laughter, …
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… history. And I guess that’s why I went that route in my own studies. So they would be learning, uh, you know, grammar lessons that I knew in grade one, or history lessons that I learned in … taught, um, you know, very proper English, I would say, “Shall I turn off the lights?” or, “May I borrow your pencil?” And they were like, …