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  • Filippo Scassa
    … village about 120 km from Rome. His parents are Luigi and Adelina. There were 10 children in his family. Filippo says that life was not … to Vancouver. The ship was the Saturnia. The ship left Naples and the sea was calm so the dining rooms were full. When they hit the Atlantic …
  • The Geoffrey Robinson Family
    … Pier 21 and the Robinson Family Perhaps the connections between us and Pier 21 … and after mobilization at the outbreak of war, was transferred to 429 searchlight regiment at Ixworth, Suffolk. After about 18 months of … and morale boosting we were scheduled for flying training overseas. There was no training available in England - all air space there was …
  • Maria Rosaria and Antonio
    … the Region of Campania. I immigrated because my sister, Dolorosa, and her husband had immigrated to Canada two years earlier and were living in Toronto. They sponsored me to come to Canada. I intended to work here for a while and then go back to my family in Italy with the money …
  • Middlemore Shillings
    … and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 … what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned this, she wrote, “All members of one Middlemore party each received a new …
  • Private George W. Langley
    … Woolidge, England. Woolidge is located in a working section of London. Her family moved to Reigate in county Surrey when Ada was eleven years … in county Surrey in a town called East Grinstead near the current site of Gatwick airport. George knew he had distant relatives in …
  • Velia Ida Bombino
    … of Arrival: July 21, 1962 Age on Arrival: 25 In July of 1962 Velia said her goodbyes to her mother Maria, older sister Geltruda, younger … family members, and friends. Accompanied by her father Michalle, she departed Grimaldi, Cosenza, Italy and traveled to the port city of …
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  • Dominica Aspillaga
    Bringing Sugar, the dog, to Canada Time 0:01:20 Transcript But my husband stayed a month after we left because he has to finish his work and then he has to sell the car. And then we were wondering about our dog, Sugar. Sugar is our family dog and she’s, like—she’s very attached to the children. So …
  • Louanne Aspillaga
    … Transcript ..the school system was different, um, like I said, I struggled in math and science because I felt like I didn’t know what they … 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 …
  • Filipinos in Neepawa: Immigration Experiences in a Prairie Town
    … and livestock farms, Neepawa has a population of just under 5,000 people. The town has been growing over the past decade, with a 27% increase in the population between 2011 and … took her two days I think, and then after that she really adjusted. Teacher, Housewife, Settlement Worker (Rosario) Myla Ignacio: And then I …

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