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Sunday, June 4, 2023
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P11295A - Halifax's train
station where thousands of emigrants from Italy arrived having disembarked
at the nearby harbour - Courtesy
of Giulia Morasset |
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P11295B - One
of these trains (now a museum in the station of Halifax) was used to transport
the newly arrived emigrants to Windsor, Ontario and other Canadian locations -
Courtesy of Giulia Morasset |
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P11297 - Stazione Marittima,
Napoli, where thousands Italian immigrants left Italy to immigrate
to Canada. Courtesy of Rosina Sorge |
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P11093 - Postcard of the
White Star Ocean Liner. Courtesy of Elena Saffran |
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P10717
- Rocco Mosna (seated in middle bottom row) on board ship to
Canada in 1952. Courtesy of Tony Mosna |
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Naples Harbor in 1954. The photo is
taken from the ship headed towards Canada. Courtesy of Rosina Sorge. |
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P10827-8
- Maria Di Giacomo came with her daughter Giovina (in Canada
Giovina is known as Nella) from Castel Frentano (province of
Chieti, Abruzzi region). They boarded the Andrea Doria from Naples
to come to Canada. On July 25, 1956, the last night at sea, the
foghorns had been sounding for hours because it was dark and
very foggy. Maria had left the cabin to take her daughter to
the bathroom, when suddenly there was a big bang caused by the
collision with the ocean liner Stockholm, near Nantucket, Massachusetts.
People, panic stricken, started screaming and scrambling around.
There was confusion and chaos. Both of them ran to the upper
deck, where many people were gathered, waiting to be rescued.
They were helped to descend into one of the waiting lifeboats
which transported them to the rescue ship Ile de France. Courtesy
of Maria Di Giacomo |
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