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by Sorcha Clarke This is a guest post from Visiting Researcher Sorcha Clarke, a PhD candidate at Ulster University / Queen's University Belfast. It contains frank discussion of the difficult circumstances encountered by Home Children before and during their placements in Canada, including physical …
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… buses running, it was like a strike, all the transportation. So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to … of days…everything seemed to be back to normal life. We start[ed] to have those problem[s]…no[t] be able to buy milk, no[t] be able to buy, anything. We have the money, but we …
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… wealthy American ladies, Mary Hitchcock and Edith Van Buren, who had come to Dawson City not to make their fortune, but to experience … Klondike Gold Rush. The experiences of Hitchcock and Van Buren were far from common, however they illustrate the fervor of excitement that came with the discovery of gold in the Canadian West. When news broke of gold in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia …
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… terrible in this part of England. "You could hear them coming from as far away as the White Cliffs of Dover. I could even tell by the sound … the engine. You could see the soldier's eyes in the cockpit - that was how low they flew. We had to get to our shelters anyway we could, … and Southampton. Britons were awarded 66 coupons per year to buy all of their clothing, outer wear and underwear, shoes and …
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… union movement. Oscar, was an “A” student throughout elementary and high school and graduated from Chilliwack Senior Secondary School in … While at U.B.C., he became involved with the University student newspaper , the Ubyssey. This ultimately led to his employment with the … an Employment Counsellor Assistant from 1980 to 1989. Returning home ( West Coast ) , he became a free-lance writer/editor writing and …
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… peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a … Canadian officials to broaden immigration for the sake of settling the West, but it is absolutely not about enlarging the idea of desirable … up at Hamburg to emigrate he might find one escaped murderer, three or four wasters and ne’er-do-wells, some very poor shop-keepers, artisans …
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… war spelt out on the moving letters on the top of the clock. I should have been overwhelmed with dread at the news and perhaps taken the next train home. But this was the trip of a lifetime, my first bit of independence and the chance to study art in summer school in …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated October 26, 2020) Introduction During the early postwar period, Canadian … “Canada’s 50,000th DP Starts New Life in New Home,” Globe and Mail , 26 February 1949, 17. Oral History with Ausma Levalds Rowberry, … and Mail , 12 January 1954, 15. “Missing Millionth,” Globe and Mail , 26 May 1954, 6. “Missing Millionth.” Badgley, “As Long as He is an …
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… Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Pier 21 was built as one of four adjoining waterfront sheds, the key transit areas of Halifax’s … system, hotel and rail station, rail car maintenance shed, the four waterfront sheds and an annex building for the government … the “Guest Children”, the movement was short-lived as after about four thousand children were transported to Canada on British public …
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… May of each year we celebrate the contributions that Asian Canadians have made to our country. Today, I would like to briefly highlight the immigration history of one particular Asian Canadian … [8] According to scholar Brian J. Given, the Tibetan refugees “…have done especially well in the “caring professions,” such as working …