Wednesday, 19 July 2017

Tragedies and Triumphs: Canadians Tell Their Family Histories

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

  • 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 


  • 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


  • 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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