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… a child with his family in the late 1920s. In 1941, he married Rita Helen Egli, and they had a daughter, Carolyn Margaret Giblin. In June … of service. William at his brother's wedding. William's burial site at the National Field of Honour, a military cemetery for veterans …
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… had disembarked from ships in Halifax when our families immigrated to Canada, we were interested to learn more. The Tourist Information … were allowed, if we qualified, to emigrate. Our parents chose Canada. To immigrate one had to be healthy, politically acceptable and … Terminals, including Pier 21 as a National Historic Civil Engineering Site. That evening the Society arranged, in the Immigration Hall at …
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… interest the on-going development of the Pier 21 National Historic Site. …
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… Emigrating To Canada September 1956 The photograph below was taken in front of our … (John) Lindeijer. I personally had no idea where we were going. I had said goodbye to friends and classmates and knew we'd be leaving for … House, Alberta. In Photo 2, the family must have responded to a shout from a family member as we all turned to face the camera one last …
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… my mom was not accepting of girls joining teams. My mom’s thought of coming to Canada was to leave the violence in Somalia for a safer place temporarily. Little did …
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… children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
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… children, including my grandmother Rose. They arrived via New York City and then north to Canada. The two families travelled cross-country …
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… I was born in Bremerhaven on January 23, 1941 to Karoline and Theo Muller, two doting parents. Everything was on fire, chaos everywhere. … in Schleswig Holstein. In fact, our house on Kaiser Strasse was completely destroyed after we left. After living in Malente for 11 …
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… we would be married eventually. I lived in Leeuwarden, the capital city of Friesland. Gerald lived in Amsterdam, in the province of North … my birthday March 28 (I turned 28), we became engaged. I promised to come to Canada as soon as possible. I did not consider myself an ordinary immigrant. I left a well paying job as branch …
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… in county Surrey in a town called East Grinstead near the current site of Gatwick airport. George knew he had distant relatives in … when she arrived in Montreal there were family members there to welcome her. Many war brides did not have this luxury and Ada knew she was … months George and Ada received wartime housing but work was hard to come by in Montreal after the war because so many men were being …