Client Stories
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Andie
November 6th, 2017
83 years young Andy was born in 1934 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the eldest of three boys. Andy decided that there were better opportunities for him if he were to move to Canada. Andy arrived in Canada in September of 1957 with his wife Dorothy. At this time there was a large influx of immigrants […]
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Audrey
November 6th, 2017
95 years young Audrey was born in Windsor Ontario in 1921 and lived in Windsor for most of her childhood. Audrey’s father worked at Ford and was constantly being laid off. This made life difficult for the family. Life continued to be difficult when Audrey’s mother passed away from cancer at a young age leaving […]
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Joe
November 6th, 2017
98 years young Joseph was born in 1919 in Calcutta, India. He worked for the government all his life with the Rail Finance Department as an Inspecting Officer. He was married (currently widowed) with 2 children, a son and a daughter. He has 5 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. His son moved to Canada and […]
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Evelyn
November 6th, 2017
99 year young Evelyn was born in 1918 in Toronto, Ontario. She lived in Toronto most of her life and worked at the Power supermarket (now Loblaws) as a cashier for 25 years. Travelling was a joy for her. “I traveled all over the world including Hawaii, Europe, Italy, and Florida. My daughter was a […]
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Marion
November 6th, 2017
100 years young Marion was born December 1916 in Tidnish, Nova Scotia to a mother who was a homemaker and a father who was a carpenter, tradesman. She had one brother Douglas with whom she was very close to while growing up. Marion went to high school, but did not want to go to university […]
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Che Kin
November 6th, 2017
92 years young Che Kin was born in 1924 in Hong Kong. He and his wife lived in Hong Kong until they decided to move to Canada at the age of 60 to join 2 out of their 3 children who were already settled in Canada. Che Kin worked as a seamen crew member for […]
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Sairah
November 6th, 2017
89 years young Sairah was born in 1927 in Guyana. She has 9 siblings, 5 brothers and 4 sisters. Her mother was a stay at home mom and her father was an icemaker back home in Guyana. Sairah came to Canada in 1977 with the help of her youngest son who was attending college here. […]
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Lin Chi
November 6th, 2017
97 years young I was born in a well-to-do family in Beijing, China in 1920. My father was a high-ranking official in Chinese government at that time. When I was little, we had over ten servants living with us. Then the war started, my family had to move to a small city in China. My […]
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Muriel
November 6th, 2017
94 years young Muriel was born in 1923 in Shrewsbury, England in the village of Nesscliffe on a farm called Long Jacks Place. Muriel is the youngest in her family with 5 sisters and 1 brother. She remembers how all her siblings looked out for her and how she was spoiled by all of them. […]
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Ruth
November 6th, 2017
91 years young I was born in 1926 as Ester Ruth Hicks in Port Arthur, Ontario which is now Thunder Bay. It’s a northern community, so the people who lived there were required to be self-sufficient and hard working in order to survive the isolation and the long, cold, harsh winters of Northern Ontario. My […]
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Dorothy
November 6th, 2017
94 years young My name is Dorothy and I was born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1922. I am one of seven children. My youngest sister Ellen died at 18 months of pneumonia. Our lives were pretty normal, our days filled with fun, love, music and security until I was 10 years old when our father […]
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