Deborah Waddell

Assisted passage with the Land Settlement going to Saskatoon Sask. I have found his name in the file for the Saskatchewen Boys Training Farm File so he was not a BICA

Peter Mitchell

by BONNIE LONG(Alberta, Canada) I have recently found out this is how my father arrived in Canada from Scotland. He never spoke to his children on how he came to be here and if mom knew she never said either. I have found his record of arrival with 8 other boys but from there I

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The Stankiewicz family on the SS Atlantic UK Outward Passenger list departing Southampton 27 September 1953

SS Atlantic

by Irenka Stankiewicz Farmilo(Ottawa, Canada ) I left Southampton on the SS Atlantic in September 1953, age 5, and arrived in Quebec City on October 3rd. Crossing time was 8 days, one day longer than planned because of a ferocious storm that had most passengers seasick, and a good part of the crew.Of my family

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SS Atlantic 1

by Irene(Shelby Twp Mi. USA) I was 8 years old emigrating to Canada with my mother and brother on the SS Atlantic in November 1953. I was seasick most of the time, but my mother forced me up onto the glass covered deck about the fifth or sixth day on the voyage. The weather was

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Alfred Henry Griffiths Juvenile Inspection Report Card

A Love for the Ocean

by Kay Griffiths(New South Wales, Australia) My father Alfred “Alf” Henry Griffiths, age 17 arrived in Halifax, Canada aboard the Regina, from the port of Liverpool, England in April 1928 My dad was a quiet man, I do not know very much about his young life and nothing about his family Alf was a crew

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