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European immigrants who came to Halifax after WWII return 75 years later – Halifax

Seventy-five years ago, Matija Sedej and Henrik Ziernfield felt the breeze of the Halifax Harbour for the first time. The two were passengers on a cargo ship titled the SS Marine Jumper which fled a European continent dealing with the aftermath of the Second World War and arrived at Pier …

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One of the last of his generation, Second World War vet in New Brunswick dies – New Brunswick

Angus Hamilton, who served as a radar technician in Southeast Asia during the Second World War and returned home to a successful career in the civil service and academia, has died in Fredericton at the age of 100. Born in Listowel, Ont., on April 18, 1922, Hamilton grew up on a farm, with the …

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