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Veterans Week (Nov 5th to Nov 11th)

Posted by William Bruce Hillman on November 9, 2009 at 12:59pm
The theme of Veteran’s Week this year is “How Will You Remember”.The Library and Archives Canada has put on their website "Welcome to Canada at War: a Guide to Library and Archives Canada Recalling the Canadian War Experience".For information on the role that the Canadian military played during the Second World War, please go to the virtual exhibit called Faces of War at <<a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/faces-of-war/index-e.html">www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/faces-of-war/index-e.html>
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A Visit to Pier 21

Posted by Elisabeth Nieuwhof on July 18, 2009 at 7:00pm
We recently traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia and visited Pier 21 - Canada"s Immigration Museum.Between 1928 and 1971 1.5 million immigrants - war brides, displaced people, evacuee children and Canadian military personnel who passed through Pier 21 , among them my father in law on his first visit to Canada in the early 50's.pier 21 2For those that consider visiting pier 21, I would highly suggest the guided tour. It is very informative and it takes you through all the stages that the immigrants to Canada
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Two Ways To Independence

Posted by William Bruce Hillman on July 14, 2009 at 6:59am
Up here in the frozen north we take great pains to point out the differences in how Canadians and Americans approach things. No better example is in how each country gained independence from Great Britain.In the United States the people grabbed their muskets and shot at the British. In Canada we grabbed our lawyers and threw them at the British. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British were quite use to people grabbing muskets , guns, spears , or whatever was laying about and
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Sorry Grandpa That’s Not The Way It Was

Posted by William Bruce Hillman on July 10, 2009 at 11:36am
Many times I and others have bemoaned the fact that we did not pay more attention to family stories our grandparents told. Nuggets of information went missing that would have saved us hours of tedious research. But then again maybe not.Grandpa used to love to tell me of his grandfather’s trek from southern England(on foot of course)to Glascow on his way to Upper Canada(Ontario). On the way he met a Scottish lass(his grandmother). A great tale worthy of a dime novel.Unfortunately, it seems that t
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