I am Ina Zambon nee Ehrentreich arrived in Canada May 1953. Sponsored by the lady with me. The photo was taken either Fall of 1953 or early Spring 1954. I am 19 years old, an adventure seeking girl, meant to …
Ina Zambon
Hannelore Wesemeier
This is a picture taken in 1956 on Granville Street. I had just arrived in Vancouver, BC from Germany. My late husband had come a few months earlier and we both started our new marriage in a new country.…
blizzy63
Paesani on their way to the cinema. 1956.
(L to R) Gino Battocchio (age 21), Francesco Lando and Mr. Cipriano (?).
Recent arrivals to Canada, all are from the Veneto region of Italy. This was Gino’s first year in Vancouver.…
blizzy63
Paesani on their way to the cinema. 1956.
(L to R) Mario Castaldello, Severino Viasanti and Gino Battocchio (age 21).
Recent arrivals to Canada, all are from the Veneto region of Italy. This was Gino’s first year in Vancouver.…
Paul
Proud New Canadian
My father, Rajo Vuksanovich, walking down Granville Street in 1949. Four years previously he had just been liberated from a German POW camp called Oflag XIIIB, where he had been held since April 1941. After three years …
Jess
July 1954, me, Jess Succamore and my friend Pat Donnelly ( pictured on the left) walking south on Granville by the then Belmont Hotel . I was 23 years old. It was a year and 7 months since I arrived …
Diane Fruttarol
My dad, Michal Omelaniec AKA Mike Omelance (Mar. 11, 1919 – Feb. 5, 2003).
A young immigrant from Shereshevo, Belarus (formerly know as Szereszow, Poland) starting a new life in Vancouver free from war and repression. Dad landed in Quebec …
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