History Helps Volume Seven, Number 3, February 2007
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• Greetings
• Post-War Immigrants
• A Website of Passenger Lists
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

GREETINGS! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!

Post-War Immigrants

“Polish Veterans Seek New Life

Three Polish Army veterans have been sent to Delta to begin their life as new Canadians on farms here. Top officials of the Department of Labor in Vancouver are watching the experiment closely.

In an interview with a representative of The Optimist recently they pointed out that every care has been taken in the selection of the men. At the same time they stressed the fact that if there is an obligation on the part of the worker to do his part, there is also an obligation on the part of the farmer to do his.

These men, if conditions do not prove suitable, may ask to be moved from farms and under their contracts the Labor officials must move them. At the same time while not speaking English they have been selected because they were considered to have the qualifications to make first class Canadian citizens.

They want a chance at our way of life and we think they should have it...”

Source: The Ladner Optimist, 12 December 1946, page two.

A Website of Passenger Lists

“Findmypast.com, in association with The National Archives, is proud to present ancestorsonboard, a new database featuring BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890. With ancestorsonboard, you can search for records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Passengers include not only immigrants and emigrants, but also businessmen, diplomats and tourists. Images of the passenger lists are available to download, view, save and print.”

There is a fee, which I didn’t try to figure out, since it’s in U K pounds and I don’t personally have a use for this information.

The website is at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com.

Thanks, Carol Ann.

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