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… an island off shore from Helsinki. There several months later he would die. Pa remembered how his sister and mother cried when they found out … army and there excelled as a soccer player. Life in Finland in the days following the civil war was hard, but with his Finnish "sisu" he … to Copenhagen where he boarded the S.S. Estonia bound for New York City with a stop in Halifax. He spent his 23rd birthday aboard the ship …
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… down the Mersey River, stopped at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland the next day and arrived in Halifax on April 27, 1929.” [1] Leonard was … to a hotel for dinner and a place to stay for the night. The next day, his boss came along with a horse and wagon and took Leonard out to … assistant. This time in the Canadian Army Medical Corps was a turning point in Leonard’s life. It lit a spark which would be turned into a …
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… collaboration is an essential part of oral history research , and can take many forms, including outreach efforts, identifying the focus … as part of these outreach efforts. Below you will read about various Canadian Museum of Immigration (CMI) approaches to collaboration in … community organization with a focus on immigrant women, and a Canada-wide initiative of the Tibetan community. Settlement …
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… be free of the Nazi tyranny. Many friendships blossomed in those days and indeed, many Canadian soldiers returned home with Dutch … asked for my mother's hand in marriage. He was a police officer in the city of Haarlem which was considered a respectable career. In his … away to a small area where a nurse oversaw their care and feeding. One day my parents had finished their dinner and came to fetch me from the …
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… Evelyn May (Blackburn) DeLorey Daughter of Henry and Jane (Cullen) Blackburn Born March 15, … 1993 in Ft McMurray, Alberta Met her husband George Willis Renford DeLorey, a soldier with the West Nova Scotia Regiment at a social in … a room with other War Brides that were to be sent to Canada. The next day, she and her children took the train to Grenack, Scotland. Sailed …
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… Exhibition is the Museum’s summer 2014 exhibit, brought to us by the Canadian War Museum. It is a glowing success, attracting about 6,000 … people have contributed so far, and the number continues to grow every day. The folks at the Canadian War Museum really knew what they were doing when they designed …
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… Hendrikus passed away from cancer on September 4, 2005 in his home city of Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. …
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… 3 Arrived in Canada as a 3 year old. Travelled with my mother Antonia di Poce Cappuccitti and my older sister Santina Tersigni, she was 9 at … our arrival at Union Station. My parents were not young when they set out on this adventure. In 1952 my father was 52 years old and my mother was 49. A bit late in life to pick up stakes and move across the world for a …
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… and the Growth of the Dutch Community. The Postwar Wave and Its Predecessors.” (unpublished manuscript). Curtis, Herb. The Scholten Story … Netherlandish Origin In the Creation of a Homogenous Population in the City of London” MA Thesis. University of Western Ontario. 1964. … Recommended Resources - Netherlands …
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… was a collective of 6 women photographers from and working in SWANA (South West Asian, North African Region). For her residency, Abdul Hadi …