These are some stories of some Canadians’ families. Some are happy some are not so happy.
- Peasant from china
- Name: Lor Jock Wing
- Peasant goes to Cuba for sugar cutting but many died so instead went to Canada
- Started laundry buisness
- Volunteers from church taught emigrants English
- Boys would tip over his wagon and make wash the cloths again
- From: China
- Lured by jazz and beautiful women
- Name: Caliste Oliver
- Supposed to become medic but instead started in jazz clubs
- Got degree in engineering
- From: Africa
- A descendants of 2 tragic pasts
- Name: MOM (Marjorie)
- Mom was street kid survivor of child welfare system
- Moved 15 times from 5 and 18 years of age
- One of first native psychiatric nurses
- Name: No name for father
- Father was dutch jew and holocaust survivor only surviving child of both sides of my family at the conclusion of ww2
- From: father dutch
- From: mom Native American
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escaping slavery in Ohio
- Name: George M. Lucas
- Back slave in Ohio arrived in Canada in 1836 through Underground Railroad via Detroit
- He married an Irish lady
- Became farmer
- Farm burned down several times
- Together they had 15 children who survived
- From: Africa
- Line of courageous women
- Name: Louis Hébert
- Arrived in port royal
- Settled in Quebec in 1617
- She saved her second husband by scarring of Iroquois
- From: French
- Fleeing a firing squad during the Russian revolution
- Name: Anne Krueger
- Anne Krueger and her family fled Bolsheviks when she was 2
- Got on boat to Canada
- From: Russia
- Rejected by America a new life with a Cadillac
- Name: No names
- Moved in 1976 after being rjected twice from usa
- 2 weeks after arrival my mother gave birth to a son
- Year later grandparents and two uncles who immigrated
- From: China
- working the fishery in Newfoundland
- Name: Benjamin Hayward
- In 1600s immigrated from England
- Opened an inn and store
- Had good traffic because all the fishers went there
- From: UK
- An indentured employee as a teenager
- Name: No names
- Moved in late 1800s as a teenagers to Calgary
- He eventually became a tailor
- He owned his own shop
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On the loosing side of the revolutionary war
- Teamed with British in american revolution \
- Had to move to Canada
- Name: no names
- From: USA/UK
- Loosing children to ship fever
- Name: Joseph and Marianne
- In July 1847 came in a boat from cork and within three months of arrival three out of 4 children died.
- From: UK
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the flip of a coin
- Went back to England but all his family was dead
- Name: William Allen
- He flipped a coin to decide weather he would go to Canada or Australia Canada won
- He became a police officer
- From: UK
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