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… Families March 1954 – Waterman My name is Johanna Schel. I left Rotterdam on March 2, 1954 with my husband, Johannes, whom was called Jan, and my three year old son also named Johannes but known as Jan Willem. I vividly …
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… Immigration Story of a 9 Year Old Boy in 1952 The best memory I have of coming to Canada and Pier 21 is that my dad told me of an aunt and uncle living near Halifax. They came by …
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… of Arrival: July 10, 1952 Age on Arrival: 3 Arrived in Canada as a 3 year old. Travelled with my mother Antonia di Poce Cappuccitti and my older sister Santina …
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… Historic and contemporary stories, research, collections and resources on Immigration-related topics—these are websites worth visiting. Angel … Society Canadian Race Relations Foundation Chinese Canadian Women Ellis Island The History Education Network Huffington Post - Born …
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… Country of Origin: Italy Ship Name: Castel Felice Date of Arrival: May 12, 1956 My father has forever engrained these dates in his mind and every year, early May he gets nostalgic and retells his story of his journey …
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… Passage of Rosa (Mulé) Nobile and Daughters Maria & Carmela When my sister Carmela and I found out that we had been accepted to … climbed on the bed and jumped and jumped for joy. In my 10 and her 8-year-old minds, Canada was the land of infinite riches. We left from …
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… the Italian Liner Saturnia. I immigrated to Canada together with my Mother Rosa and my brother Giovanni, to join my father Michele in Ottawa who landed at Pier 21 exactly one year before. It was not an easy task landing in Halifax in the middle … and everything from the food to the landscape was very strange to me; very different than southern Italy. The train we boarded was old …
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… Patricia Roberts-Pichette and find myself writing in the hopes that someone out there can help us with a question. Patricia wrote to me back in 2011 while … During our correspondence I mentioned that a visitor had let me scan what they called “a Middlemore shilling”. When Patricia learned …
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… As an eighteen-year-old army private, I arrived at the C.N.R. Station in Halifax, from Camp … cookies, cookies by the dozens - molasses, sugar, and date. Sometime you couldn't hear your officer giving orders, but this didn't matter as we knew very … Bruce Eldon Myron Evans Ray …
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… Just the other day, to my surprise, I learned that I have been wearing a treasure every time I do my gardening. My father came to Canada from France in the 70s …